The Women'S Room Av Marilyn French

1968. Mira Ward is lonely, depressed and in a mess. Having spent years subscribing to the American Dream of a husband, children and a spotless kitchen in suburbia, Mira decides it's time to go back to school. From the shallow excitement of suburban cocktail parties and casual affairs, through the varied nightmares fo rape, madness and loneliness to the dawning awareness of the exhilaration of liberation, Mira Ward's world is about to be turned upside down. Reviews: 'They said this book would change lives - and it certainly changed mine.' Jenni Murray 'Reading The Women's Room was an intense and wonderful experience. It is in my DNA.' Kirsty Wark 'The Women's Room took the lid off a seething mass of women's frustrations, resentments and furies it was an angry book about the victimisation of women, about the need to change things from top to bottom it was a declaration of independence.' Observer 'The kind of book that changes lives.' Fay Weldon