Having read 'A Single Thread', I was already familiar with the situation of those deemed surplus. However where Tracey Chevalier concentrates on the middle class Violet, here we meet a working class girl.
The details of our heroine's daily life is at times heart breaking. She is genuinely caught as a young woman between keeping the memory of her beloved Ben alive and the desire to get on with her life. Belinda is a clever girl who has not been given the opportunity to fulfil her potential.
I had expected this to be a simplistic story, but reading I found there was much more to this. This is a story of class and the restrictions of being born a working class girl at the beginning of the twentieth century.
A really lovely read.
The details of our heroine's daily life is at times heart breaking. She is genuinely caught as a young woman between keeping the memory of her beloved Ben alive and the desire to get on with her life. Belinda is a clever girl who has not been given the opportunity to fulfil her potential.
I had expected this to be a simplistic story, but reading I found there was much more to this. This is a story of class and the restrictions of being born a working class girl at the beginning of the twentieth century.
A really lovely read.