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By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
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Since her mother's death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns her attention to her own interests. While Jennifer is desperate to experience life on her own terms within her reduced financial means, her neighbour, Alice, is pre-occupied with ensuring her position as head of her brother's household is never challenged.

©2020 Elizabeth Von Arnim; Preface © Lucy Evans; Afterword © Simon Thomas (P)2021 Isis Publishing Ltd 20th Century Classics Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Modern Women's Fiction World Literature
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A real gem. Superb storytelling and incisive wit. Should be much better known. Think Austen!

Brilliantly subtle examination of coercive control

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Important historical novel set in the interwar years, And based on the experience – personal and emotional – of all those women faced with a life Without the security of marriage.

The single woman in the interwar years

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Went on a bit too long towards the end although beautifully written as all her books

The writing

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wonderful narration and humour with great characterisation. go jennifer. was gripped to the end. just wonderful

a great comfort read

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I liked the idea of the heroine, escaping from her bullying father and renting a cottage where she finds independence and meets new people. It’s a light comic novel, rather than a believable study of life. The characters are quite 2D and silly, and there are a lot of silly unrealistic occurrences. It reminded me a bit of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willows - spinster escapes family expectations. And also of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - downtrodden woman discovers new life. But to my mind it’s not as good as either of those books. Beautifully read though.

light comic novel

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