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Hostages to Fortune (Paperback)

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Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd (22 Jun 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1903155312
ISBN-13: 978-1903155318
Product Dimensions: 19 x 14 x 3 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 460,683 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This autobiographical first novel follows the life of a young woman from 1915 when she has her first baby until early 1933 when it was published. Catherine’s husband, invalided out of the army in 1917, buys a doctor’s practice in an Oxfordshire village and here the young couple bring up their three children and are deeply involved in the life of the village. It is a surprisingly hard life, full of difficulties and disillusions, but a satisfying one nevertheless. Hostages to Fortune is a brave and unusual novel in its description of both the realities of parenthood and its attendant disillusions – there is no plot as such, and yet the reader becomes intensely absorbed in a life which is in one sense faraway and in another, because this is a domestic novel par excellence, not very different from many such lives today.

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