Author: Pat Barker
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9780399128806
0860682838
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"Vivid, bawdy and bitter" (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challenges of poverty and survival in a precarious world.
There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married, and already pregnant; Old Alice, welcoming her impending death; Muriel helplessly watching the decline of her stoical husband.
And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.
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