![]() ![]() She experiences increasing pressure in the tension between her own and society’s expectations for her life. Yet she cannot be happy without the love of a man and she cannot love fully unless she relinquishes control enough to lose herself in him. Anna wants to be free but believes that she cannot thrive as a writer or a woman if she does not exist independently of her lovers. It is successful but after moving to London finds she is suffering from writer’s block. ![]() In reading this, I had to weigh-up: on the one hand the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature (no mean feat for a woman!) and on the other I would have preferred to read a book on Africa, politics and feminism written by a woman of colour of that time rather than a white woman.įirst published in 1962 as an exploration of ‘Free Women’, the book centres around a group of young, white, idealists and their political debates and hypocrisies particularly around communism, racism, feminism, patriarchy, sexual freedom and the war.Īnna, the main character, has written a novel called ‘Frontiers of War’ based on her youth in Colonial Africa during WWII. ![]()
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