Against Her Nature

by Elizabeth Buchan

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Life is a risk, however much we try to protect ourselves. Unlike the Frants living their quiet ordered lives in the village of Appleford, Tess and Becky are of the generation that believes it can have everything. Highflyers in the high-octane world of London's high-finance, they move through the opportunists, the short-termists, the sharks, the bullies and the very, very rich to face many choices, not least the one presented by biology: children. As the different generations balance the show more challenges life throws at them, a tender and unexpected love story emerges alongside a journey to maturity in this novel. show less

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Quite readable, if a bit confusing. Banking, insurance and its dangers, feminism, and motherhood all combine in this book. Rather too many people and different scenarios for my tastes, but not a bad book.

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Elizabeth Buchan was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. She attended the University of Kent at Canterbury in the 1970's and earned a double degree in English and History. She began working as a blurb writer for Penguin Books in 1974. She did this for 15 years and then went on to become a Fiction Editor at Random House in 1989. After the show more publication of her third novel, she became a full-time writer. Her novel, Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman, has been made into a television film for CBS. She was the eighteenth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association from 1995 - 1997. Her title Separate Beds made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Against Her Nature
Original publication date
1997-06
People/Characters
Tess; Becky
Important places
Appleford, Windle, Cumbria, England, UK

Classifications

Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6052 .U214 .A53Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000

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