Forget Your Whips And Chains Grey, This Year’s Bestseller Is All About The Soul

Last year we were curling up on our couches absorbed in the x-rated tale of Christian Grey and his penchant for whips and chains. This year, it’s a whole different story.

Forget 50 Shades, it’s a “book of simple wisdom” by an enclosed order of nuns that is topping the bestsellers list this year, the Irish Examiner reports.

Calm The Soul: A Book Of Simple Wisdom And Prayer by the Poor Clares in Galways provides prayers for people in financial difficulty, for the unemployed, for those in need of some improved self-esteem and those suffering anxiety.

Sister Colette told the paper the nuns are “so delighted that the book and its message has reached so many people”.

The book has been on the bestsellers list since October.

“We’ve received numerous letters of heartfelt thanks from people telling us that they’ve been helped by the book, and that they felt it had been written for them at a particular moment in time to give them a sense of hope," Sister Colette said.

The book has been in the top five on the chart since its publication in mid-October.