The Home by Penelope Mortimer (.ePUB)
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The Home (1971) by Penelope Mortimer (Author), Lucy Evans (Preface), Simon Thomas (Afterword) (British Library Women Writers)
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Overview: ‘… after years of anxiety and distress there would once more be a home. She would make it, alone, untrammelled, a free human being.’
Originally published in 1971, this searing novel looks at the experience of a woman escaping a faithless marriage and trying to establish a new home for grown-up children who no longer need her. Eleanor’s emotional journey is often raw and dark, but there is humour and absurdity as she grapples with her newfound singledom. Fiercely capturing the tone of the 70s, it shines a light on the reality faced by so many women of the period when forced to re-assess their roles as wife and mother.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > British Library Women Writers
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