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Before the War

Fay Weldon

Narrator Julian Clary

Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd

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Summary

Consider Vivien in November 1922: she is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionable clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as ‘the giantess.' Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months...
Duration: about 7 hours (07:27:44)
Publishing date: 2016-11-08; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2016. Copyright Statment: —