The House of Women

by Catherine Cookson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $4.20

  Bramble House contained a matriarchal empire headed by Emma Funnell. The house had been built for her as a wedding gift by Patrick and, now in her 70s, Emma continued to keep the firmest control of the domestic affairs of the three generations of the Funnell family, all women, living in the house.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.25

  Emma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift. Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred. And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house - all of them women. There is widowed daughter Victoria, increasingly a hypochondriac; granddaughter Lizzie, who bears the brunt of running the house, as well as enduring a loveless marriage to Len Hammond; and Peggy, her sixteen-year-old daughter, now trying to find the courage to drop the bomb-shell of her pregnancy into their midst. This explosive situation provides the springboard for a powerful and absorbing novel that explores, over a period of fifteen years, all that fate holds in store for the dwellers in the house of women, reaching its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today.