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The Five Lives of Ms Bennett

by Helen Hagemann
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A GRIPPING STORY OF ENDURANCE

This heart-warming and intriguing novel will have you cheering for Ms Bennett as she navigates away from an unhappy marriage towards a new love!
The Five Lives of Ms Bennett is a historical, coming-of-age, family saga. It's about the struggle of a young Australian girl, fed up with her hometown life, only to find that the big city doesn't exactly hold the dreams she wishes for.

Themes

  • Love doesn't always find a way.
  • Marrying outside of one's culture elicits problems.
  • Nationality differences exhibit cultural bias and prejudice on both sides.

    • Five Lives: Five Decades

  • Includes early Australian history, references to colonial heritage, Australia in the fifties, sixties and seventies.
  • The domestic roles of women.
  • Post war lifestyle and conditions.
  • Women's cottage industries.

    • In the extension of Ms Bennett's contemporary lives there are issues such as family loyalty and trust, the vagaries of money and wealth, family jealousy and fraud, domestic violence, alcoholism, rights to education, equality and freedom for women.

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    Publisher: Oz.one Publishing

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    • ISBN: 9780645752441
    • Release date: July 17, 2023

    EPUB ebook

    • ISBN: 9780645752441
    • File size: 388 KB
    • Release date: July 17, 2023

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    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook

    subjects

    Fiction Literature Thriller

    Languages

    English

    A GRIPPING STORY OF ENDURANCE

    This heart-warming and intriguing novel will have you cheering for Ms Bennett as she navigates away from an unhappy marriage towards a new love!
    The Five Lives of Ms Bennett is a historical, coming-of-age, family saga. It's about the struggle of a young Australian girl, fed up with her hometown life, only to find that the big city doesn't exactly hold the dreams she wishes for.

    Themes

  • Love doesn't always find a way.
  • Marrying outside of one's culture elicits problems.
  • Nationality differences exhibit cultural bias and prejudice on both sides.

    • Five Lives: Five Decades

  • Includes early Australian history, references to colonial heritage, Australia in the fifties, sixties and seventies.
  • The domestic roles of women.
  • Post war lifestyle and conditions.
  • Women's cottage industries.

    • In the extension of Ms Bennett's contemporary lives there are issues such as family loyalty and trust, the vagaries of money and wealth, family jealousy and fraud, domestic violence, alcoholism, rights to education, equality and freedom for women.

    Expand title description text
    Fiction Literature Thriller