From Library Journal
The concept of a life crisis, of the road not taken, has become a commonplace in fiction and pop psychology, but it has never before been used as Rogers uses it here. Eighteen-year-old Carolyn, a British schoolgirl, is critically injured in an auto accident. While healing, she imagines how her life would have continued had she not had the accident. This other life, of Carolyn as a wife and mother, continues separately from the life of Caro, the damaged girl who recovers and pursues her own career. Eventually the two lives intersect, with neither woman realizing the other's identity. If one can accept the concept of two real Carolyns, the reward is a wealth of insight into the psychology behind the choice between career and homemaker faced by so many women. Delicately written and highly recommended. Shelley Cox, Special Collections, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Product Description
This feminist novel by the author of "Separate Tracks" and "The Ice is Singing" received the Somerset Maugham Award. It is the story of Carolyn Tanner, a woman equally at home in two separate worlds - one as a devoted wife and mother, and the other as an independent feminist.
