num_pages: 184
description: "What kind of a wife do you think Joan would make?" This was the start of the marriage between Joan, a teacher from Liverpool, and Alex Park, eleven years her senior and from Glasgow. Married in 1953, Joan moved to Glasgow and into a very different world from the one she had known, for Alex expected a wife who stayed at home, brought up the children and kept a good house. She, an experienced teacher, wished to continue her career.From this mis-match arose a long series of disasters and misunderstandings, but also a loving and close family who rose above all through the exercise of tolerance and humour.Joan Park's account of her marriage, as seen through her husband's eyes, is humorous and encouraging, a wonderful glimpse into the hardships of the immediate post-War years through the changes of the 1960s and 1970s to the present.
language: English
title: I Married Joan
titlecomplete: I Married Joan
publisher: Reminiscence Large Print