Any of us who are concerned for the integration within ourselves of the erotic and the spiritual will value this book, which is entirely unashamed in declaring the erotic as such within the texts of the Scriptures; Sr Edmée is equally adamant that these texts are not 'carnal' - she will not settle for an evasive 'agapeism' which is embarrassed by sex; she understands, very precisely, that the erotic within us is entirely good. I do not understand this (nor does she claim it) to be at all different from what the great mystics of love, Bernard and the Carmelites chief among them, have said many times before: but it is refreshing to hear this word asserted directly and robustly in the language and scholarship of today, and the book is thrillingly spirited. ( )