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The small widow

by Janet McNeill

WidowsFictionLife change eventsSelf-realization in womenMiddle-aged women

Harold's death leaves Julia a widow, alone and struggling with grief as well as her new life. How can she begin to build new relationships with her friends, what does she now owe to her children, or they to her? For the first time Julia has to learn independence, she needs to discover who she is when she is no longer a wife and is now a mother to children who do not need her. As a widow can Julia find a freedom, an identity, which has never existed in her life before?

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Book data: Open Library