Can anyone identify this book please?

[SephieG]

My Mum would really like to re-read a book she read some 30-40 years ago. For her upcoming 89th birthday, I'd like to be able to track it down for her. She can't remember the title or the author but I hope someone might be able to help.

Synopsis: Set in the UK around the 1950s/60s? A bunch of nuns have had to leave their convent and relocate to a very rural location, in the middle of nowhere. However, these nuns were very good at living off the land and were expert herbalists. The herbal medicine aspect seems a significant theme in the story. They take in an escaped convict/murderer who's in a bad way, and they nurse him back to health, whereupon he tries to take over and bullies the nuns, and threatens the Mother Superior with a gun (we don't know where he got the gun from though). He doesn't shoot the lady boss but eventually gets his come-uppance in the end.

[mycats]

Best place to try would be booksleuth, they are great there. You tell them what you know about the book and there is usually someone who will know what it is. Good luck, its a lovely idea for a present

http://www.abebooks.com/docs/Community/BookSle uth/?nsa=1

[Peter Pedant]

This isnt

Lilies of the Field

is it

Made into a film b and w with SIdney Poitier ? (Amen.......)