Constance Beresford-Howe - Free Library Land Online

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Willy (Wilhelmina) Doyle has two objectives: to get a job teaching and to marry somebody as promptly as possible -- or at the very least to have an affair. This latter plan is labelled The Project. Our heroine is undeterred by the fact that, at 30, she is starting both projects a little late.

The first objective is easily accomplished when Willy gets a job teaching in a university English department, which suits her very well. Progress on The Project, however, is more difficult to measure, in spite of the several men in Willy's new life. It is only after a romantic trip for two that Willy makes real progress on The Project -- and comes to know true loneliness.

Told with a wry, self-deprecatory humour that can describe sexual disasters with elegance and affection, this book is part comedy and part tragedy. Readers will enjoy meeting brave, optimistic Willy Doyle.]]> Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:58:39 +0200 The Book of Eve https://animals.library.land/constance-beresford-howe/512754-the_book_of_eve.html https://animals.library.land/constance-beresford-howe/512754-the_book_of_eve.html

First published in 1973, The Book of Eve has become a classic. When Eva Carroll walks out on her husband of 40 years, it is an unplanned, completely spontaneous gesture. Yet Eva feels neither guilt nor remorse. Instead, she feels rejuvenated and blissfully free. As she builds a new life for herself in a boarding house on the "wrong" side of Montreal, she finds happiness and independence -- and, when she least expects it, love.]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:41:40 +0200 A Serious Widow https://animals.library.land/constance-beresford-howe/77409-a_serious_widow.html https://animals.library.land/constance-beresford-howe/77409-a_serious_widow.html

At the age of 50, newly widowed Rowena Hill feels only relief to be free of her penny-pinching fusspot of a husband. As she makes her stumbling efforts to become fulfilled as a woman and a wage-earner, well-intentioned friends and her overbearing daughter all make plans for her future, with results that are sometimes comical, sometimes disastrous. However, Rowena's growing taste for independence leads her to a solution to her problems that no one could have predicted and which astonishes even herself. First published in 1991, A Serious Widow collected glowing reviews.]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2001 16:00:52 +0200 The Marriage Bed https://animals.library.land/constance-beresford-howe/158019-the_marriage_bed.html https://animals.library.land/constance-beresford-howe/158019-the_marriage_bed.html

Meet Anne Graham, mother of two young children, young, attractive, heavily pregnant -- and alone. Things have not worked out at all the way Anne intended. Her promising academic career was cut short by an unexpected pregnancy and an early marriage. Her stable home life crumbled with her husband's announcement that he was leaving her to move into a commune with his secretary.

Now she is a housebound single mother, whose intellectual life has shrunk to stolen moments of bedtime reading. The solution to her problem is clear to her friends and neighbours. She must find someone to mind the children and then go back to school or get a job. It's obvious. Or is it?

Once again, Constance Beresford-Howe has approached a common theme from an uncommon point of view, with her own blend of perceptiveness and dry humour.]]> Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:24:30 +0200