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After Nora

By (author) Penelope Curtis

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In early 1920s England, Noraâ€™s life is in a state of flux. Married to a man named Herbert, she has fallen in love with another. Sent away to her parentsâ€™ home to consider her position, she decides to take control of her life and divorces her first Herbert to marry the second. We follow her in the inter-war years, as she leads an existence on the margins of the artistic and political elite. This quest for control of her life as an artist, mother and wife will continue, as she struggles to find the focus that seems to come so easily to male artists who are not required to fit their work into their domestic lives. In late 1960s Glasgow, young biologist Maria de Sousa wrestles with her feelings for Adam, her older colleague. Fifty years later, his daughter seeks out Maria to discover what really happened between them. Adam is the authorâ€™s father, and Nora the grandmother who she never knew. Penelope Curtis offers sensitive portraits of those whose lives she has had to imagine in order toÂ understand. After Nora reveals the forces that check personal callings, and movingly resurrects a past whose remnants still permeate the present.

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