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Elizabeth Cambridge
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344p PERSEPHONE BOOKS ISBN 1903155312
WITH A PUBLISHER'S NOTE
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.
The endpaper is a 1933 and-printed
linen designed by Edwin Parker for the Silver Studio.
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