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Emma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift. Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred. And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house - all of them women. There is widowed daughter Victoria, increasingly a hypochondriac; granddaughter Lizzie, who bears the brunt of running the house, as well as enduring a loveless marriage to Len Hammond; and Peggy, her sixteen-year-old daughter, now trying to find the courage to drop the bomb-shell of her pregnancy into their midst. This explosive situation provides the springboard for a powerful and absorbing novel that explores, over a period of fifteen years, all that fate holds in store for the dwellers in the house of women, reaching its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: House Of Women
• Author: Catherine Cookson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780552133036
• ISBN: 0552133035
• ID: 04096997
• Publisher: Transworld Publ. Ltd UK
• Weight: 190 g
• Dimensions: 179 × 109 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. January 1993

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