The MillstoneHMH, 15 oct 1998 - 192 páginas The story of an upper-middle-class unwed mother in 1960s London, from a novelist who is “often as meticulous as Jane Austen and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh” (Los Angeles Times). In a newly swinging London, Rosamund Stacey indulges in a premarital sexual encounter—and soon thereafter finds herself pregnant. Despite her fierce independence and academic brilliance, Rosamund is in fact naïve and unworldly, and the choices before her are terrifying. But in the perfection and helplessness of her baby she finds an unconditional love she has never known before—and as she navigates a situation still considered scandalous in her circles, she may discover that motherhood and independence need not be mutually exclusive. From “one of Britain’s most dazzling writers,” the award-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises, The Millstone captures both a moment in history when women’s lives were changing dramatically and the timeless truths of the female experience (The New York Times Book Review). |
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... asked. Anyway, when I got to it, I signed it in my maiden name: Rosamund Stacey, I wrote, as large as can be, in my huge childish hand, underneath a neatly illegible Hamish Andrews. I did not even see what I had done until I handed it ...
... asked. Anyway, when I got to it, I signed it in my maiden name: Rosamund Stacey, I wrote, as large as can be, in my huge childish hand, underneath a neatly illegible Hamish Andrews. I did not even see what I had done until I handed it ...
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... asked them in with cheerful goodwill. "You weren't just about to go out, were you, Rosamund?" said Dick, walking into the kitchen and sitting on the table. "One never can tell with you. You lead such a secret life. We thought we might ...
... asked them in with cheerful goodwill. "You weren't just about to go out, were you, Rosamund?" said Dick, walking into the kitchen and sitting on the table. "One never can tell with you. You lead such a secret life. We thought we might ...
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... asked. "I bet you could write a bad book if you wanted to. Couldn't you?" "Not if I knew it was bad while I was writing it. I couldn't do it. I couldn't get it done." "What a romantic view of literary creation," said Dick. "Speak for ...
... asked. "I bet you could write a bad book if you wanted to. Couldn't you?" "Not if I knew it was bad while I was writing it. I couldn't do it. I couldn't get it done." "What a romantic view of literary creation," said Dick. "Speak for ...
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... asked for it: I had asked for it as little as anyone who had ever got it. One reads such comforting stories of women unable to conceive for years and years, but there are of course the other stories, which I have always wished to ...
... asked for it: I had asked for it as little as anyone who had ever got it. One reads such comforting stories of women unable to conceive for years and years, but there are of course the other stories, which I have always wished to ...
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... asked him if it was boring, announcing boring things day in and day out, he said yes, but that he liked being bored. So I said that something must interest him, then, if his work didn't, and he said yes, I did, so why not talk about me ...
... asked him if it was boring, announcing boring things day in and day out, he said yes, but that he liked being bored. So I said that something must interest him, then, if his work didn't, and he said yes, I did, so why not talk about me ...
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