[PDF] ↠ Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Author Joan Alexander – Thomashillier.co.uk
The Letter From The French Finishing School Made No Bones About It Anna Was A Bad Influence On The Other Girls, Rude To All The Staff And Generally Lazy There Was No Point In Her Returning For Another Term At Home In Sussex Karen Is Determined To Be Broad Minded, Not To Scold, But When Anna Actually Arrives Back, She Is Shattered What Has Changed Her Daughter From A Sunny, Carefree Child Into A Glowering, Sullen Monster Anna Repudiates Karen S Cosy, Conventional Attitudes And Cloying Affection She Leaves Home, Partly To Hurt Her Mother And Partly To Embrace Life On Her Own Terms She Has A Series Of Affairs, With Jake, A Fairground Loiterer, Stephen, An Interior Decorator, And With The Older, Urbane Dr Pierce, Who, When Anna Is Pregnant, Takes Care Of Her Abortion But It Is With The Writer, Mark Sinclair, Whom She Meets In Nigeria, That Anna Glimpses A Substantial Relationship, One That May, Paradoxically, Bring Her Back Into The Fold Of Her Family Unless The Claims Of Her Generation Take Precedence Once.In Anna And Karen, Joan Alexander Has Created Two Memorable Characters Whose Conflict Is Only Too Real, And Whose Estrangement Mirrors A Disturbing Symptom Of Our Society.
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