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Hostages to Fortune

Elizabeth Cambridge
3.76/5 (129 ratings)
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This autobiographical first novel follows the life of a young woman from 1915 when she has her first baby until early 1933 when it was published. Catherine's husband, invalided out of the army in 1917, buys a doctor's practice in an Oxfordshire village and here the young couple bring up their three children and are deeply involved in the life of the village. It is a surprisingly hard life, full of difficulties and disillusions, but a satisfying one nevertheless.

'Hostages to Fortune' is a brave and unusual novel in its description of both the realities of parenthood and its attendant disappointments - there is no plot as such, and yet the reader becomes absorbed in a life which is in one sense faraway and in another, because this is a domestic novel par excellence, not very different from many such lives today.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
344 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Persephone Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1903155312
ISBN13:
9781903155318
kindle Asin:
B08L5P9H7W

Hostages to Fortune

Elizabeth Cambridge
3.76/5 (129 ratings)
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This autobiographical first novel follows the life of a young woman from 1915 when she has her first baby until early 1933 when it was published. Catherine's husband, invalided out of the army in 1917, buys a doctor's practice in an Oxfordshire village and here the young couple bring up their three children and are deeply involved in the life of the village. It is a surprisingly hard life, full of difficulties and disillusions, but a satisfying one nevertheless.

'Hostages to Fortune' is a brave and unusual novel in its description of both the realities of parenthood and its attendant disappointments - there is no plot as such, and yet the reader becomes absorbed in a life which is in one sense faraway and in another, because this is a domestic novel par excellence, not very different from many such lives today.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
344 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Persephone Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1903155312
ISBN13:
9781903155318
kindle Asin:
B08L5P9H7W

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