On a Moroccan holiday, a woman surveys eighteen years of marriage marked by grievance, frustration, betrayal, and quiet comedy.
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On a Moroccan holiday, a woman surveys eighteen years of marriage marked by grievance, frustration, betrayal, and quiet comedy.
'Absorbing and quietly uncompromising, redolent with the vibrant smells and colours of Majorca, and of Spain' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A highly revealing account, not only of a woman's life, but of a whole extraordinary passage in one contemporary European country' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Nina Bawden is one of the really attractive practitioners of the genre the feminine novel - not a dismissive referral in her case' KIRKUS REVIEWS Elizabeth and Richard, are on holiday in Morocco, travelling from its fertile c...
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Marital intimacy, desire, aging, and betrayal; not graphic or frequent
Travel mishaps and a shocking late catastrophe; not graphic
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Brief cultural references to North African Muslim social norms
No magic or witchcraft present
No occult or demonology content present
Recurring themes of gender roles, marital inequality, women's status
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Emotional marital betrayal; reflections on women's confinement and harm
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