Book description
What happens when your husband falls in love with the woman you might
have become? Eighteen-year-old Carolyn Tanner lies in a hospital bed.
Recovering from an accident, she imagines herself returning to her
parents' home, marrying her childhood sweetheart and becoming a mother.
Instead, she joins a women's cooperative and becomes a landscape
architect. But as her dream and her real life entangle, she must search
to find her true self. Imaginative and unusual . . . presents feminist
arguments as complex issues rather than political tracts Jane Rogers
has written eight novels including Her living Image (Somerset Maugham
Award), Mr Wroe's Virgins (Guardian Fiction Prize runner-up), Promised
Lands (Writers Guild Best Novel Award), Island (Orange long-listed),
and The Voyage Home. She has written drama for radio and TV, including
an award-winning adaptation of Mr Wroe's Virgins for BBC2. Her radio
work includes both original drama and Classic Serial adaptations. She
has taught writing at the University of Adelaide, Paris Sorbonne IV, and
on a radio-writing project in Eastern Uganda. She is Professor of
Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, and is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature. Jane lives on the edge of the moors in
Lancashire.
