A Woman's Life - Rilegato

Billington, Rachel

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ISBN 10: 0752846612 ISBN 13: 9780752846613

Casa editrice: Orion, 2002

Riassunto

Connie is the youngest member of a large Irish family and Ireland¿s too small to contain her. She is beautiful and impulsive. Men love her, while she roars through life, never looking before she leaps - sometimes onto rocks. Nina is English and middleclass, the shy, thoughtful, daughter of an army officer. She marries her boyhood love and has two children before realising how unfulfilled she is, and that painting is her true passion. Fay is American and Jewish, the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor. She¿s the ambitious one, who fulfils her dream of becoming a doctor before admitting a darker, more complex side to her nature. Three women, born at the outbreak of World War II, who¿ve grown up in widely differing circumstances, form an improbable friendship that sustains them through forty years of love, marriage, children, work, divorce and tragedy, against the backdrop of a society undergoing dramatic change at every level, especially for women.

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A beautifully written saga by a stylish, intuitive writer. The story of three women - one Irish, one English, one American - whose friendship, forged in adversity in the 1960s, will span the rest of the 20th century.

L'autore

Rachel Billington has published twenty novels and nine books for children, as well as several non-fiction works. She is also a regular journalist, feature writer and reviewer. She is co-editor of Inside Time, the national newspaper for prisoners and a Vice-President of English PEN. She has four children and five grandchildren and lives in London and Dorset.

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• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0752846612
• ISBN 13: 9780752846613
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384