The Hours Before Dawn (Paperback)
by:
Celia Fremlin (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781860492235 (1860492231)
Publish date: December 1st 1996
Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Louise a put upon housewife with 3 siblings lives in middle class splendour with a husband unable or unwilling to help by taking joint responsibility for the day to day management of a busy household. This is a novel of its time set in late 1950's England when it was supposedly expected for the man ...
This won the Edgar Award for best novel back in 1960 and features a mother trying to cope with a newborn who will not stop crying, two older girls, a typical English husband of the 1950s who shows his concern about the household by showing up unannounced for lunch and expecting a hot meal with meat,...