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The House of Women

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#232126
Titel	The House of Women
Auteur	Cookson, Catherine
Boektype	Pocket
Uitgeverij	Corgi Books
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0552133035
ISBN13	9780552133036
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Emma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift. Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred. And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house - all of them women. There is widowed daughter Victoria, increasingly a hypochondriac; granddaughter Lizzie, who bears the brunt of running the house, as well as enduring a loveless marriage to Len Hammond; and Peggy, her sixteen-year-old daughter, now trying to find the courage to drop the bomb-shell of her pregnancy into their midst. This explosive situation provides the springboard for a powerful and absorbing novel that explores, over a period of fifteen years, all that fate hol... (Lees verder)ds in store for the dwellers in the house of women, reaching its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today.
Pagina's	382
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 5,00

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