Emma Ioni Ioni itibaren Haupiri, Nueva Zelanda
prepare to be horribly depressed. this was a consciousness raising novel written in the 1960s, i think.... in other words, it tells the story of a group of women who are "friends" who all live in the same suburban community in the late 50s and early 60s. they all have depressing and repressed lives... there is the catholic woman with 17 children who is becoming an alcoholic, there is the woman with the frigid husband, the woman with the unfaithful husband, etc. the book's point was to open eyes to the deeply unhappy lives behind a happy facade before and after the women's lib movement. thouroughly depressing, but very thought provoking. i gave it three stars instead of four because it never gave men a chance to speak for themselves but portrayed them only as oppressors, which might have been necessary given the time period...