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A Woman on the Edge of Time
A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mothers Young Suicide
Author: Jeremy Gavron
Narrator: Gerard Doyle
Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 09/20/2016
Synopsis
A sons search for his mother, a feminist pioneerand a casualty of her time
In London, 1965, a brilliant young womana prescient advocate for womens rightshas just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a suicide note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book: The Captive Wife. No one had ever imagined that Hannah Gavron might take her own life. Beautiful, sophisticated, and swept up in the progressive sixties, she was a promising academic and the wife of a rising entrepreneur. But there was another side to Hannah, as Jeremy Gavron reveals in this searching portrait of his mother.
Gavronwho was just four when his mother killed herselfattempts to piece her life together from letters, diaries, photos, and the memories of old acquaintances. Ultimately, he not only uncovers Hannahs struggle to carve out her place in a mans world; he examines the suffocating constrictions placed on every ambitious woman in the mid-twentieth century.