From contemplative nun to Ansbacher investigator...Noreen Mackey’s memoir is by turn sad, funny and nostalgic. She give a very warm and readable account of the everyday things that turned her life around and around during these years. She describes the ups and downs of working and living in Dublin, alongside the ups and downs of her spiritual journey.When Noreen Mackey, a barrister who had given up a successful career to join an enclosed contemplative community in the depths of the French countryside, found herself back in the world again after only eighteen months, it seemed like the end of everything. At forty-eight, she was without a home, without a job, without any apparent future. Yet less than two years later, she was in the Cayman Islands, investigating the Ansbacher affair on behalf of the Irish Government.The Crystal Fountain is the story of the extraordinary turnaround in one woman’s life through her faith in God and her belief in prayer. It is the story of a quest, where the journey led along unexpected paths, and where nothing was what it seemed at first sight. It is a story that will give hope and encouragement to anyone who has ever stood among the ruins of their shattered hopes. It is the story of God’s ways with us, ways that are not like our ways, but that unfailingly lead to life, to freedom and to happiness.
Noreen Mackey lives in Dublin and is legal adviser to the competition Authority.
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