Zoë Fairbairns
Autore di Benefits
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Zoe Fairbairns
Opere di Zoë Fairbairns
Opere correlate
Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind: An Anthology of Original Stories (1985) — Collaboratore — 112 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Fairbairns, Zoë
- Data di nascita
- 1948-12-20
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 21
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 286
- Popolarità
- #81,618
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 50
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 1
By sally tarbox on 24 January 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
Lent me by an acquaintance; this was SO much better than I anticipated.
It begins with two sisters in 1855; the younger, Helena, has just made a 'good' marriage while the more independent Sarah turns her back on a future living in her sister's home and sets sail for Australia with the aim of buying her own farm.
Now knowing this was a family saga written from a feminist perspective, I was just waiting for Sarah to become a wealthy landowner, but it doesn't quite pan out like that - it's much more believable and interesting.
The future generations of women whom the narrative follows are not all mothers and daughters, but there is a link somewhere: Pearl, daughter of a loose-living barmaid; Ruby, who learns to be a secretary and ends up in India, a nameless prison wardress, and 1970s Jackie, with her ideas on women's liberation and free love...
A very entertaining and well-written light read.… (altro)