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British Library Women Writers 1920's.
Part of a curated collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers, the British Library Women Writers series highlights the best middlebrow fiction from the 1910s to the 1960s, offering escapism, popular appeal and plenty of period detail to amuse, surprise and inform.
“May I ask your daughter’s age?”
“Nan is thirty-three.”
“A dangerous age.”
Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the ‘dangers’ faced at each of those stages in life. The book opens with Neville celebrating her 43rd birthday and contemplating middle age now that her children are grown. Her mother, in her sixties, seeks answers to her melancholy in Freudianism. Her sister, Nan, 33, a writer who has hitherto led a single and carefree life in London, experiences the loss of love and with it her plan for the future. And Neville’s principled daughter Gerda, who is determined not to follow her mother’s generation into the institute of marriage, finds herself at an impasse with the man she loves.
Published: August 2020
Author: Rose Macaulay, with an afterword by Simon Thomas
Brand: British Library Publishing
Number of pages: 256 pages
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm
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