24 Festive Tasks: Door 7 – Mawlid, Task 4:
Muhammad was a merchant before becoming a religious leader. List 5 books on your shelves in which a key character makes / undergoes a radical career change.
1. Brother Cadfael: A career change can hardly get any more radical than going from crusading soldier to herbalist monk (with a sideline of detection).
2. Captain Arthur Hastings: From soldier in WWI to London detective (of sorts) to cattle rancher in “the Argentine”.
3. Washington Black: From child slave on a sugarcane farm to explorer to painter (supporting himself by working as a delivery boy) to scientist and scientific illustrator — all in the space of barely 20 years.
4. Mr.
Special mention:
Miss Maud Silver: From governess to private investigator.
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