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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 bombshell 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 holds in store for the dwellers in THE HOUSE OF WOMEN. The story Reaches its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today.
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The House of Women, Catherine Cookson
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1993
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- Titel
- The House of Women
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Catherine Cookson
- Verlag
- Corgi
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1993
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0552133035
- ISBN13
- 9780552133036
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Romantik, Historische Romane, Liebe, Familie, Britische Literatur, Glück, Generationen, Generationsunterschiede
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1992
- Originaltitel
- House of Women
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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 bombshell 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 holds in store for the dwellers in THE HOUSE OF WOMEN. The story Reaches its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today.