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Buy this book on-line BILLINGTON**, RACHEL: : A Woman's Life: A Novel of Friendship. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.ORION,2011. ISBN 0752846612.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's neat,blue ink inscrptn and signature: 'Best Wishes Rachel Billington' to front free endpaper (ffe) and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour artwork photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+ pink lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/tanned but bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps - author's signature excepted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1- 368pp [paginated] includes year date chapters spanning from 1965 to 2000,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication,a poem (The Waking by Theodore Roethke 1908-63),another dedication(?) page and 6pp blanks at the rear.
Three women born at the outbreak of World
War II,meet in the early sixties.From widely differing backgrounds,they form an improbable friendship that sustains them through forty years of love,marriage,
children,work,divorce and tragedy,during a period that saw dramatic change in the lives and hopes of women everywhere.
Connie is the youngest of a large Irish family,though Ireland is too small to contain her.beautiful and impulsive,men will always love her.
She roars through life,never looking
before she leaps,sometimes onto rocks.Nina is English and middle-class,the shy, thoughtful daughter of an army officer.She marries her girlhood love and has two children before realising how unfulfilled she is,and that her true passion is to paint.Fay is a Jewish-American,the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor.
She's the ambitious one,who fulfils her dream of becoming a doctor but finds she must admit a darker,more complex side to her nature.
After a gap of four years,Rachel Billington returns to fiction on sparkling form with a novel that is both epic and intimate,and utterly compelling.
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