Marriage Bed

Literature & Fiction

BERESFORD-HOWE, Constance

Contemporary

Totem

Anne Graham is pregnant, abandoned by her busband, forced to raise her young children alone, thoroughly disillusioned with her existence, and decides to go back to school

United States

St Martins Pr

Willy (Wilhelmina) Doyle has two objectives: to get a job teaching and to marry somebody as promptly as possible  – or at the very least to have an affair. This latter plan is labelled The Project. Our heroine is undeterred by the fact that, at 30, she is starting both projects a little late.The first objective is easily accomplished when Willy gets a job teaching in a university English department, which suits her very well. Progress on The Project, however, is more difficult to measure, in spite of the several men in Willy’s new life. It is only after a romantic trip for two that Willy makes real progress on The Project — and comes to know true loneliness.Told with a wry, self-deprecatory humour that can describe sexual disasters with elegance and affection, this book is part comedy and part tragedy. Readers will enjoy meeting brave, optimistic Willy Doyle.

A population of one: A novel

St.Martin's Press

First published in 1973, The Book of Eve has become a classic. When Eva Carroll walks out on her husband of 40 years, it is an unplanned, completely spontaneous gesture. Yet Eva feels neither guilt nor remorse. Instead, she feels rejuvenated and blissfully free. As she builds a new life for herself in a boarding house on the “wrong” side of Montreal, she finds happiness and independence – and, when she least expects it, love.From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Book of Eve

Literary

Little,Brown

Book of Eve

AVON.

First published in 1973, The Book of Eve has become a classic. When Eva Carroll walks out on her husband of 40 years, it is an unplanned, completely spontaneous gesture. Yet Eva feels neither guilt nor remorse. Instead, she feels rejuvenated and blissfully free. As she builds a new life for herself in a boarding house on the âwrongâ side of Montreal, she finds happiness and independence â and, when she least expects it, love.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Macmillan of Canada

"First published in 1946, this prize winning novel examines, with perception and empathy, the complex relationship within a close-knit Montreal family in the 1930s: Fran, a handsome, indomitable woman in her fifties; her mildly alcoholic brother Teddy and his precocious young daughter; Fran's two sons, Conrad, the ugly duckling, and David, the spoiled darling, and David's coldly exquisite wife Fay. When Abbey, the orphaned daughter of Fran's childhood friend, is welcomed into the circle, the fragile facade concealing long-buried fears and resentments is broken forever.

The Unreasoning Heart

Laurentian Library

<p>At the age of 50, newly widowed Rowena Hill feels only relief to be free of her penny-pinching fusspot of a husband. As she makes her stumbling efforts to become fulfilled as a woman and a wage-earner, well-intentioned friends and her overbearing daughter all make plans for her future, with results that are sometimes comical, sometimes disastrous. However, Rowena’s growing taste for independence leads her to a solution to her problems that no one could have predicted and which astonishes even herself. First published in 1991, A Serious Widow collected glowing reviews.</p>

Serious Widow

MCCLELLAND STEWART

A Serious Widow

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Marriage Bed

Marriage Bed

A population of one: A novel

The Book of Eve

Book of Eve

The Book of Eve

A population of one: A novel

The Unreasoning Heart

Serious Widow

A Serious Widow