In the tumultuous years before the First World War, sisters Iris, Marianne, Eva and Clemency, born and raised in industrial Sheffield, seek to follow their dreams. When twenty-year-old Marianne meets handsome, sophisticated Arthur Leighton at a local provincial ball, she knows that she has found the love of her life. Years pass, and Iris, her ambition of a grand marriage dashed, becomes a nurse in a London hospital, surprising herself, and her family, at her ability to deal with the injuries and needs of her patients. When Eva falls in love with the Bohemian, Gabriel Bellamy, her hopes of becoming an artist falter, for though he admires her work, he expects attention in return for his tutelage. Caring for her invalid mother, Clemency remains tied to the family home, stifling her dreams of a life elsewhere. And Marianne's desire for happiness turns to nightmare when she finds herself trapped in an isolated outpost of the Empire with a cruel and dangerous man. Only her love for her son and her memory of her sisters, thousands of miles away in England, give her the strength to survive. As the clouds darken and war changes the lives all the sisters have known, Iris, Marianne, Eva and Clemency fight to free themselves of the bonds that confine them and discover love at last.
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Judith Lennox was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She read English at Lancaster University and now lives in Cambridgeshire with her husband and three sons. She is the author of seven highly praised and bestselling novels including most recently THE DARK-EYED GIRLS, WRITTEN ON GLASS and MIDDLEMERE.
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Set just prior to and during WW1, All My Sisters is the story of a large Edwardian family, prosperous and upper middle class. Papa owns and runs a steel mill and expects most, if not all, of his three sons to follow him into the business. Beautiful Iris is the eldest of the four girls and fully expects to make a brilliant marriage to one of her many admirers. Marianne meets and marries, but is widowed in the space of two years. Eva, who is known as the artistic daughter, persuades her reluctant Papa to allow her to attend the Slade school of art, where she becomes the mistress of a completely amoral artist, while Clemency, the plainest of the four girls, is forced to leave school to dance attendance on her mother, who thoroughly enjoys poor health. After the death of her husband, Marianne makes a marriage of convenience to a tea planter from Ceylon with whom she has a baby son, but this man proves to be a twisted, evil monster who causes her to fear for her life. This was SUCH a good read, one of those books scathingly called chick-lit, which is really a word for a comfy, cosy read about the lives of women...I loved every word of it.
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