ISBN: 9781743293409
Format: Ebook
Pub Date: 28/02/2006
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945)
Imprint: Macmillan
Price: $9.99
Family of Women' is the story of three generations of women: Bessie: scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to disturbing lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet: one of Bessie's four children, marries young to escape, into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war, Linda: grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with older sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Intelligent and energetic, she craves education and something more than the life she sees around her. Torn from her longed for place at the grammar school, she gives up hoping for anything better. It takes a tragic love affair to make her question the limitations of her life and the secrets which haunt her family.
Author Information
Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and now lives in Reading with her husband and four children. She read English at Oxford, and her first Birmingham novel, Birmingham Rose, hit the Times bests eller list when it was published in 1995. She has subsequently written eight other successful novels, all published by Pan Macmillan, including, most recently, Miss Purdy's Class.
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