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Synopsis
Three women, born at the outbreak of World War II, meet in the early sixties. From widely differing backgrounds, they form an improbable friendship that sustains them through forty years of love, marriage, children, work, divorce and tragedy, during a period that saw dramatic change in the lives of women everywhere. Connie is from a large Irish family. Beautiful and impulsive, men will always love her. Nina is English and middle-class. She marries and has two children before realizing how unfulfilled she is. Fay is a Jewish American, the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor. She fulfils her dream of becoming a doctor but finds she must admit a darker, more complex side to her nature.
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Rachel Billington has published thirteen novels, including A Woman's Age, Loving Attitudes, Bodily Harm and, most recently, Magic and Fate. She has also published two children's novels and three religious books for younger children, as well as The Great Umbilical, a work of nonfiction about mothers and daughters. Her plays have been performed on radio and television and her varied work as a reviewer and journalist included a regular weekly column, published as "The Family Year."
She is married with four children.
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Conventional wisdom says you can pick your friends but not your family, but is this really true? Do we indeed have the power to rationally select those people with whom we choose to share life's most profound moments, or do we merely fall victim to circumstance, continuing relationships as much out of convenience as affection? Billington ponders such weighty matters through her portraits of Connie, Fay, and Nina, women thrown together through an unlikely confluence of events, yet who develop a friendship that spans 40 years, bridges two continents, and survives war and devastation, marriage and divorce, births and deaths. As the historical events of the period--the Vietnam War, the dawn of feminism, the conflict in Northern Ireland--impinge upon their individual lives, their friendships are equally affected by both internal and external influences. From Fay's stoicism to Connie's narcissism to Nina's introspection, Billington explores how and why friendships survive in a compelling study of one of life's most sustaining bonds. Carol Haggas
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- PublisherCharnwood Pub
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0708948316
- ISBN 13 9780708948316
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages536
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