NO MORE MEADOWS by Monica Dickens ( 9781448203116 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

NO MORE MEADOWS

By:

Monica Dickens

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1448203112

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9781448203116

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

20 December, 2012

Pages:

434

Synopsis:

'Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more bypath meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave.' So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. Christine feels bound to agree. 'My wife can do anything,' Vinson says. Struggling to comply with this statement, Christine has to adjust to life in America, whilst catering to Vinson's idea of a good spouse. She must force a sycophantic smile for the wife of Admiral Hamer (who wears patent-leather shoes like bananas) in an effort to ease his promotion. There must be a cold Turkey and a cold ham at every party and she must suffer her ridiculous mother-in-law. Bitter arguments are relieved by bleak silences. As the realities of married life wash away her rosy dream of it, Christine begins to wonder if Vinson is really what she wants. First published in 1953, No More Meadows unravels the threads of a very real marriage. Full of her inimitable warmth and sense of idiosyncratic character, Monica Dickens explores Christine's heart-warming -- and at times heart-breaking - search for happiness.

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black & white illustrations

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Bloomsbury Reader

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