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Sto caricando le informazioni... Where the Queens All Strayeddi Barbara Hanrahan
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An evocative, richly realised novel of a society on the brink of change from acclaimed artist and author Barbara Hanrahan. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Anyway, Hanrahan was just the author that I wanted to read after the emotionally draining experience of reading The Woman in Valencia (La femme de Valence), by Annie Perreault, translated by Ann Marie Boulanger. I wanted to read a novel featuring assertive women who took control of their lives, and Where the Queens all Strayed seemed like a title with promise. I wasn't disappointed.
Where the Queens all Strayed is a coming-of-age novel set at the turn of the 19th century. Thea Hodge, aged twelve, is the narrator and though she doesn't always understand what's going on, she is a keen observer of her family and the people of her small community in the Adelaide Hills. She has an older sister Meg who is the victim of her mother's fantasy about snaring the local posh boy, Teddy Teakle. Thea has doubts about this, because her father is from a dubious Adelaide suburb and she suspects that the Teakles, made rich by their jam factory, are unlikely to be conned into 'marrying down' even by Mother's best efforts at dressing Meg in finery. (Teddy is entranced enough, however, to cause Meg the kind of trouble that girls got into before birth control, but not entranced enough to marry her.)
But that's not the only straying that Meg does...
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