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A Woman of Intelligence
A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe Simon and Schuster Australia Katharina Edgeworth was once a translator at the United Nations. She loved her life and then she fell in love with Tom Edgeworth, a pediatric doctor from a well-to-do family. They eventually married and when she had her first child she stopped working and became what would today be called a stay-at-home mother. Her life appeared to be just about perfect but the reality was anything but that. Her husband was almost never, home, more married to his work than to her. Meanwhile, she has lost herself to motherhood. As much as she loves her children, it’s not complete.…
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Menopause Manifesto
A year or two ago, The Vagina Bible was recommended to me and I immediately downloaded it. I will admit I hadn't read very far into it yet but I liked what I saw. When this book was offered on Netgalley, I immediately requested and hoped very much to be accepted. Fortunately, I did get the okay and I've been reading it over the past few weeks. Growing up, I used to hear about menopause and my impression was it encompassed not just the final menstrual period but the time leading up to it. Many years later, I discovered the more correct term for the years leading up to menopause…
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The Ripping Tree
At the age of sixteen, Thomasina Trelora, “Tom”, finds herself sailing for Australia to be married to a vicar she’s never met. She’s had a radical upbringing and isn’t too happy with the plan for her future, particularly the lack of any say in the matter. There is a shipwreck along the rocks on the coast and Tom finds herself rescued by an aboriginal man from the wreckage. She’s left on the verandah at Willowbrae, a well-to-do estate belonging to the Craw family in the middle of nowhere. At first, she feels she has gained a reprieve from her fate, and due to her (feigned) lack of memory, she tries…