First-person narratives or novels (preferably Catholic) of someone who has left the faith and returns to it?

Question

I know of a bunch of books by people coming into the Christian faith from outside or moving from one branch to another, but I don't know offhand of any books by people who fell away and came back. I'm interested in *stories*, not apologetics or stuff like that, so I'm looking for personal narratives, novels, or even movies. And I'm interested primarily but not only in stories from or by or about Catholics. Any time period.

This is a research project and not a personal quest, so no advice please. Just book names.

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Thanks for the answer, tardis_mom. I looked it up. The book is "Rome, Sweet Home" and it is a first-person narrative by a Presbyterian minister and wife converting to Catholicism. It seems they had strong faith all along and so it isn't *exactly* what I'm hunting for, which is about losing faith and coming back. But it's definitely a good book to know about. Thanks.

As I stumbled around my apartment knocking stacks of books over I noticed "Walking from East to West" by Ravi Zacharias. It is his autobiography and describes in some detail growing up in a nominally Christian home, then falling away, then a major crisis, then becoming much more than nominally Christian.

Did Malcom Muggeridge write an autobiography? How about Michael Novak?

Answer 1

Try:

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

The Confessions, by St Augustine

Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the Church, by Donna Steichen

The Prodigal World, by Fulton J. Sheen

The Return of the Prodigal Son, by Henri Nouwen

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

"Home Sweet Rome" by Scott and Kimberly Hahn

Answer 3

Prodigal Daughters....I don't know the author.