Remember those old-fashioned novels that we used to walk into, as if into a house full of genuinely interesting people, and spend a week or two listening and be sad to leave. This book is one of those. Mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers ...in an entralling novel, glowing with life, charged with the drama of four generations of chaninging times... and remarkable women. What the book "The Women's Room" said about the women in this country starting in the sixties, this novel says it about the Engliswomen in the years between World War I and the present day....

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