Confinement - Softcover

McMahon, Katharine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006550800 ISBN 13: 9780006550808

Verlag: Flamingo, 1999

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Críticas

‘Convincing, dramatic and authentic.’
The Times

‘A superbly crafted novel about duty, compromise and inspiration... satisfyingly seeded with small ironies and interconnections.’
Sunday Times

Reseña del editor

The plight of a nineteenth century schoolteacher, trapped by her duty to her job, is mirrored by a modern day woman’s fight to escape the shackles of a broken marriage.

Bess Hardemon, a tough and canny young teacher living in the mid-nineteenth century, is determined to make a difference at her new school, Priors Heath. Under the austere gaze of the Reverend Carnegie and his deputy, Miss Simms, the young girls remain underfed and unstimulated – until the arrival of the bright, motivated young Bess.

At the cost of her own chance of finding love, Bess remains trapped by her duty, a confinement echoed a century later by Sarah, a teacher at the modern-day Priors Heath who must make her own choice between her duty to her pupils and her efforts to save a broken marriage.

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• Verlag: Flamingo
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0006550800
• ISBN 13: 9780006550808
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320