Half Of The Human Race

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Format:: Paperback
Pages:: 496
Publisher:: Vintage
Publication Date:: 05 January 2012
Category:: Modern & Contemporary
ISBN:: 9780099531944

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Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests. Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventional comforts of marriage. Spirited and courageous, she is determined to fight for 'the greatest cause the world has ever known.' Will Maitland, the rising star of county cricket, is a man of traditional opinions. He is both intrigued and appalled by Connie's outspokenness and her quest for self-fulfilment. Buffeted and spun by choice and chance, their lives become inextricably entangled, even as the outbreak of war drives them further apart. This is a deeply affecting story of love against all the odds.

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This was a beautifully written story, set in London, and the author is meticulous in his research about it, so much so, that I could picture the scenes.Connie and William were very well written characters, and William's cricketing hero Tam cut a very sad figure in this story. The battle piece, where William was leading his troop on a suicidal mission in France, in WW1 was truly heartbreaking, but that was brief in its passage, where in the next chapter, time had moved on a few years.

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