Description
Amy Parry is left bereft after the death of her best friend Enid in childbirth, and her life is thrown into sharp focus by love, duty, and the hard arithmetic of survival. With Val Gwyn seriously ill with TB and her own future constrained by circumstance, Amy must navigate a world where illness, grief, and social expectation collide—while she refuses to surrender her ambition to live beyond poverty. Set against the emotional and moral pressures of its time, the novel explores resilience, class, and the cost of choosing between what is possible and what is right. In Emyr Humphreys’s distinctive, character-driven style, the story blends intimate feeling with a clear-eyed sense of society’s limits, offering a compelling portrait of an “absolute” kind of courage.
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paperback
Sphere
Published Jan 1, 1988
217 pages
ISBN: 0722141920
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First Published
1986
Language
eng
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