Armstrong then recounts her time at the University of Oxford, which was also going through a period of great institutional change, where, according to one review, she "traded one kind of monasticism for another." As a student in Oxford she earned a BA and MA, but failed to achieve a doctorate she then got a job teaching in London, but was let go- all the while dealing with serious health problems, and even attempts suicide. The book begins with Armstrong's early life experience as a nun in an authoritarian convent she talks about the problems she encountered there, and recounts the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, and finally her leaving the convent. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out Of Darkness (2005) is an autobiography by Karen Armstrong, a religious scholar and founder of the Charter for Compassion.
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