The Compleat Woman: Marriage, Motherhood, Career - Can She Have it All?

by ValerieGrove (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $4.71

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $4.26

  A book on the question does a woman have to choose between career and family? It features interviews with 20 achieving women, all with three or more children, married for at least 25 years, with full-time careers. The women include Elizabeth Longford, Mary Warnock, Fay Weldon, Shirley Hughes, Margaret Forster, Druscilla Beyfus and Mavis Nicholson. In hardback the book was greeted with praise: Excellent - Katherine Whitehorn; totally fascinating - Antonia Fraser. Valerie Grove was a well-known journalist and feature writer with the Evening Standard and is now a regular columnist with The Sunday Times . She is the author of Where I Was Young: Memories of London Childhoods .