Zoë Fairbairns
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Write Short Stories and Get Them Published: Your practical guide to writing compelling short fiction (Teach Yourself) (2012) 2 exemplaren
Live as Family 1 exemplaar
Covetousness (in The Seven Deadly Sins - FELL) 1 exemplaar
Relics 1 exemplaar
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Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind: An Anthology of Original Stories (1985) — Medewerker — 112 exemplaren
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- 1948-12-20
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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.… (meer)