The Women's Pages (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 2nd aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When the guns fell silent and the men came home, the real battle for a generation of women had only just begun — The Women's Pages is a richly imagined, emotionally resonant novel set in post-World War II Australia, chronicling the life of a woman who carved out a voice for herself in the male-dominated world of journalism. Victoria Purman plants her protagonist firmly in the bustling newsroom of a Sydney newspaper, where she writes the titular women's pages — recipes, fashion, domestic advice — while quietly yearning to report on the stories that truly matter. The central tension crackles with historical authenticity: a woman of ambition, intelligence, and hard-won independence navigating a society determined to push her back into the domestic sphere from which the war had briefly freed her. Purman, the bestselling author of The Land Girls, brings her signature warmth and meticulous research to bear on this compelling portrait of post-war womanhood, illuminating the quiet courage required to challenge convention one column at a time. Her prose is both accessible and deeply empathetic, anchoring grand social themes — gender equality, identity, the cost of ambition — in the intimate struggles of one unforgettable woman. With its evocative period detail and a heroine whose fight feels as urgent today as it did in 1945, The Women's Pages leaves the reader asking a timeless question: how much of yourself are you willing to surrender to belong?
Author: Victoria Purman
Format: Paperback
Published: 2021
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 2nd aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When the guns fell silent and the men came home, the real battle for a generation of women had only just begun — The Women's Pages is a richly imagined, emotionally resonant novel set in post-World War II Australia, chronicling the life of a woman who carved out a voice for herself in the male-dominated world of journalism. Victoria Purman plants her protagonist firmly in the bustling newsroom of a Sydney newspaper, where she writes the titular women's pages — recipes, fashion, domestic advice — while quietly yearning to report on the stories that truly matter. The central tension crackles with historical authenticity: a woman of ambition, intelligence, and hard-won independence navigating a society determined to push her back into the domestic sphere from which the war had briefly freed her. Purman, the bestselling author of The Land Girls, brings her signature warmth and meticulous research to bear on this compelling portrait of post-war womanhood, illuminating the quiet courage required to challenge convention one column at a time. Her prose is both accessible and deeply empathetic, anchoring grand social themes — gender equality, identity, the cost of ambition — in the intimate struggles of one unforgettable woman. With its evocative period detail and a heroine whose fight feels as urgent today as it did in 1945, The Women's Pages leaves the reader asking a timeless question: how much of yourself are you willing to surrender to belong?