This Family of Women
Pages: 414
|Published: 1 Jan 1983
Description
BOUND BY TIES OF BLOOD AND LOVE, SURVIVAL WAS THEIR LEGACY. . .
Lena, who ransomed her future to buy her daughter respectability. . . Effie, driven to greatness in her desperation to escape the past. . . Constance, born to celebrity, struggling to achieve an identity of her own. . . Rose, building an empire of beauty on a foundation of shame. . . and June, finding love in a firestorm of bombs.
From California's Gold Rush to the opulent London of the Malborough Set, from earthquake-ravaged San Francisco to the Europe of two world wars, five generations of indomitable women dared seize fate and mold it to their wills.
Lena, who ransomed her future to buy her daughter respectability. . . Effie, driven to greatness in her desperation to escape the past. . . Constance, born to celebrity, struggling to achieve an identity of her own. . . Rose, building an empire of beauty on a foundation of shame. . . and June, finding love in a firestorm of bombs.
From California's Gold Rush to the opulent London of the Malborough Set, from earthquake-ravaged San Francisco to the Europe of two world wars, five generations of indomitable women dared seize fate and mold it to their wills.
