num_pages: 384
description: Emma funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift.  Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred.  And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house--all of them women.There is widowed daughter Victoria, increasingly a hypochondriac; granddaughter Lizzie, who bears the brunt of running the house, as well as enduring a loveless marriage to Len Hammond; and Peggy, her sixteen-year-old daughter, now trying to find the courage to drop the bombshell of her pregnancy into their midst.This explosive situation provides the springboard for a powerful and absorbing novel that explores, over a period of fifteen years, all that fate holds in store for the dwellers in THE HOUSE OF WOMEN.  The story Reaches its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today.
language: English
title: House Of Women
titlecomplete: House Of Women
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance, Novels
ratings_count: 541
publisher: Corgi