| Title | : | Before the War |
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| Author | : | Fay Weldon |
| Release | : | 2016-11-08 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | Before the War | Fay Weldon |
| Consider Vivien in November 1922: she is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionable clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as ‘the giantess.' Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man’s child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months... |
