Grab Your Edition The Marriage Bed Devised By Constance Beresford-Howe Published As Digital Edition

really liked this book, but the ending was just disappointing, Enjoyed her writing overall but just felt something was missing, And then boom, the end was there, It's more of a., worth a read. Like Adele Wiseman, a thoughtful and empathetic writer who appears to catch a snapshot of society who can speak to the cultural zeitgeist of a time and place, though unappreciated.
The book of Eve and this novel were read in almost one sitting, she has a distinct voice that isn't trying to symbolically speak in a cryptic crossword to you, but the emotions and efforts describe are an appeal to empathy with the happenstance of human conditions.
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Now that I have read three books by CBH, I want to read them all, I have enjoyed the complex, quirky characters, the strong feminism, the changing times and the storylines, The Marriage Bed is told in a number of days, as Anne deals with the fact that her husband has left her, pregnant and with two toddlers.
Anne's life has always been a challenge her father had died, her mother was not exactly a traditional mother, she had moved around a lot in her youth and her education plans were halted by pregnancy.


Anne is a loveable character, doing her best, struggling with her mundane life as she reflects on her past and is unsure about her future.
Like the otherbooks, Anne is educated and strong, She makes her own decisions and has so much potential, even as she cleans up a "turd" from beneath the dining table and folds the mounds of laundry.


This is a book to enjoy, to ponder and to reflect on, we all have the dayto day tasks and commitments but need to find that balance between family, independence, love, frustration, work and home, this book feels real and I am not sure why this author was not more wellknown, Meet Anne Graham, mother of threeyearold Martha and oneyearold Hugh, young, attractive, heavily pregnant and alone,

Things have not worked out at all the way Anne intended, Her teenage plans of marrying a rich Older Man who would put her through university when Max, the first suitable candidate to come along, married Anne's mother, Billie, instead.
Then her promising academic career was cut short when her first real romance led to an unexpected pregnancy and an early marriage, Finally, and much more recently, 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 of two and threequarter children, whose intellectual life has shrunk

to stolen moments of bedtime reading,

It's not that her life is dull, There are dishes to wash and floor to vacuum, and for variety there are trips to the vet with her neurotic, eczemaridden dog and unexpected visits from her sweetly disapproving motherinlaw.
However, it's not at all what Anne Graham had in mind when she was planning her academic future,

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, Or is it

Once again, Constance BeresfordHower has approached a common theme from an uncommon point of view, with her own blend of perceptiveness and ironic humour.
The result is a book that is gritty, entertaining, and, ultimately, optimistic just like its heroine, Well done. Just too close to real life for me, . . parenting is hard. Constance Beresford Howe was born in Montreal, She received her M. A. from McGill University inand her Ph, D. from Brown University in. She taught English literature and creative writing at McGill until, then moved to Toronto, Ontario where she taught at Ryerson until her retirement in, Her first novel, The Unreasoning Heart, was published while she was still a student, Ms Beresford Howe died in a hospice in Bury St, Edmunds, Suffolk England, on Jan,,at the age of. .