In 1940s Australia, being an unmarried mother is almost criminal. Born the product of a brutal rape in a time when illegitimacy is a sin, Margaret Weise tells a story of heartbreak and victimization, of battling for survival. "What else could I do except to keep on living? I couldn't simply shrivel up and die because I had been raped and had borne a child. What alternative did I have but to go on as best I could? Yet there were people who looked at me as though I should have ceased to exist..." One Link in the Chain is a thought-provoking read; a family saga that demonstrates how lives can be...
In 1940s Australia, being an unmarried mother is almost criminal. Born the product of a brutal rape in a time when illegitimacy is a sin, Margaret Wei...
What happens when a woman who's old enough to know better falls instantly in love with a charming, pompous, womanizing misogynist? It happened so quickly that Jessica didn't have time to chastise her heart. Before she realizes it, she's allowed herself to be mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by Roger, self professed Romeo, who displays his perfection at every turn. Jessica realizes she's in so deep there's barely a way out, and she's also become the victim she never thought she would ever be. Until she fights back. The Romeo Experience tells the cheeky story of one woman's valiant...
What happens when a woman who's old enough to know better falls instantly in love with a charming, pompous, womanizing misogynist? It happened so quic...
We are all a link in the chain of generations, a connection between ancestors and descendants. The interesting part about this interconnectedness is each individual story that lies inside every living, breathing person. How they began, and where their years of living have taken them, are the intriguing factors. In More Links in the Chain, Margaret Weise deals with several more relaxed recollections concerning her mother, the extended family, and herself. Sometimes she participates and in others is a spectator, although always a very interested one, retelling the human dramas first learned...
We are all a link in the chain of generations, a connection between ancestors and descendants. The interesting part about this interconnectedness is e...
Whilst we may believe we have done with our past, our past may not have done with us. A century ago, the women of Wintergreen had only the sketchiest of ideas about contraception. It was a time for old wives' tales and superstition. So what was it like back then to conceive and give birth, sometimes to a live baby? Wintergreen is an historical saga, telling the stories of twelve ordinary women surviving in less enlightened and very difficult times. This story looks back on where we have been to help us realize where we are going.
Whilst we may believe we have done with our past, our past may not have done with us. A century ago, the women of Wintergreen had only the sketchiest ...
