![]() To round out the worldview we have Neville and Nan's mother, who also celebrates a birthday - her sixty-third - in the course of the story. ![]() ![]() Alongside Neville and Nan we see glimpses of Neville's daughter Gerda (and her son Kay) who are at University and deep in strong philosophical and political stances that they feel they absolutely must cling to at all costs, in the way that young people often do. The book also follows her younger, and less conventional sister, Nan, who is toying with the idea of marriage and refusing to conform to expectations. Beginning with Neville, who is the middle generation, as she celebrates her forty-third birthday and muses on what she has achieved with her life so far and her expectations versus the reality. The novel is quite domestic in tone, focusing on the lives of three generations of women in a family, and the way that societal expectations of a woman's role play into each of their lives depending on the generation that they belong to. ![]()
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