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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
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"The story of two young people marked by the precariousness, the intolerance towards their desire and the family uprooting."
"La joven Violet Speedwell parece inexorablemente destinada a una existencia como mujer soltera. La Gran Guerra le ha arrebatado a su prometido, como a otras mujeres que, con los soldados, han visto partir su posibilidad de contraer matrimonio. Solo tiene una salida: ahorrar lo suficiente para dejar la casa familiar y establecerse...
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