A Complete Woman - Thomas, Betty

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Résumé :
Little Jean?s childhood is an idyllic one, growing up with two loving parents, helping her father down at his allotment, going for rides in the guard?s van on the railway where her father works? until, one day, tragedy strikes and life is never the same for Jean again. Uncertainty is added to insecurity as not only must she and her mother face life alone without a beloved father and husband, but the Second World War breaks out. Over the years to come she is blown from home to home by fate and her mother?s restless nature. As she grows up and enters adulthood, Jean works hard and is a dutiful daughter? but is it at the cost of her own happiness? She wonders if she will ever have the opportunity to find the right man, or if such a man even exists for her ? does she have the capacity to love a man as she truly wishes to? Follow Jean?s story from a more innocent time, as she makes the emotional journey to understanding herself, finding love and becoming A Complete Woman.