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Family of Women

By: Annie Murray
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
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1950 - Seven year old Carol Martin lies encased in an iron lung, struck down by the killer disease polio. Distraught at her side, her mother, Violet, wonders if this is her punishment - for Carol is the love child who should not have been born....

Family of Women is the story of three generations of women. Bessie: scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to disturbing lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet: one of Bessie's four children, marries young to escape, into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war. Linda: grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with older sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Intelligent and energetic, she craves education and something more than the life she sees around her. Torn from her longed-for place at the grammar school, she gives up hoping for anything better. It takes a tragic love affair to make her question the limitations of her life and the secrets that haunt her family.

Spanning more than half of the last century, Family of Women is a story of one family - and of the joys, struggles, and changes in women's lives.

©2006 Annie Murray (P)2014 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance

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3 generations of women. ee dont just hrar their stories but also how attidudes change through the years

such a good listen

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This was a good listen, if only to hear what horrible things were going to happen next to the family……..I’ve never enjoyed such a miserable book! Seriously, if you want sunshine and roses this is not the book for you. But the narrator was excellent.

If you like misery…….

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What a fantastic book, loved following each member of the family, so easy to follow and so well read

Annie Murray and Annie Aldington a perfect match

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Fair play to Annie Aldington a fantastic narrator because if it was anyone else I don’t think I could have survived till the end it was incredibly boring not much actually happened having read many Lena Kennedy books which made me laugh and made me cry this one just made me sleep

This is no Lena Kennedy

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