This page is where we will list all of Marion’s upcoming speaking events. If there are no events listed, please check back at another time.
If you are interested in booking Marion for an event, please get in touch.
I am more likely to respond when I receive an email contact:
dantemarion5@gmail.com
Thankfully the consequences of the pandemic hopefully are ebbing away but we are now challenged not only with the results of the war in Ukraine but fear of the result of the turmoil in Israel and Palestine. However as resilient folk we cope even as we struggle. I succeeded giving my talks on Zoom and after five inoculations against COVID I travelled to many venues answering invitations to speak to groups last year. Requests for 2025 are noted below. I have also published and enjoyed a successful launching of my third novel! ‘Camino Tales’ the third in my sequence: Searching for Love, A Love as strong and Camino Tales. They can of course also be enjoyed independently of each other.
Now a summary…
Since 2007 when my autobiography ‘Dropping The Habit’ was published I have been invited to give talks based on my life before, during and after I left the convent. I have spoken to a variety of audiences: A good number of Women’s Institutes, Townwomen’s Guilds, Probus, Rotary, Inner Wheel, Tangent, various retirement groups, Library members.
I have also taken part in the BBC Listening Project and other BBC productions as outlined in the ‘About the Author’ given on the final pages of my books.
I will try to keep this page up-to-date. Nicola Whyte thankfully, is very patient and helpful in putting my talk dates is order. It is she who set up my website therefore search this website or Google my name to find links.
Biography
Marion Dante always knew she would be a nun. She was born in answer to prayer. At the age of 14, she left home and started her training to become a Salesian Sister. Fired with the desire to save souls she eventually became a nun and a successful teacher and spent many happy and eventful years in the convent.
Leaving the convent 33 years later, Marion wrote her autobiography, Dropping the Habit, a gripping, honest book in which she opens the door to the convent and bares her soul.
Searching for Love is the first novel in the Frankie Danivet series and tells the story of innocent young postulent Frankie, struggling to decide between love or the church. Its sequel, A Love as Strong, follows Frankie as she transitions from life at the content to life and love in the outside world.
Camino Tales: Left alone with her four-year-old son while her husband is away in Florence supporting family, forty-year-old Frankie is looking for a challenge. Santiago Compostela…Does Frankie comes to realise that is changing her…?
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Marion Dante