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Kitty Barron was a woman who faced
the hardships of bringing up her daughter alone. The
owner of Redwood in the New South Wales countryside,
Kitty was an unusual woman. In Australia in 1893 when a
woman married all she owned became the property of her
husband. Kitty was determined that her daughter Joy,
would not have to face the prospect of losing what was
rightfully hers.
Joy Barron, like most girls of sixteen thought her
future lay outside the splendor of Redwood. At a
boarding school in Sydney she befriends Lily, a country
girl like herself who also has worldly ambitions. Joy is
unaware that Lily will soon become a greater part of her
life that will cause great sorry. When Joy gets the
chance to go to England to be presented to Queen
Victoria, she gets Lily to go with her. What happens to
Joy and her close friend Lily while the two girls are in
London turns their world and everyone around them into
chaos.
Rufe Cavanagh a man of ambition and drive, moves in and
out of Kitty’s life by cruel twists of fate. The passion
of youth can sometimes override logic and take on a
corrosive force that destroys relationships. Rufe and
Kitty fall victim to the whims of youth and drift apart.
Later on in their lives they rediscover each other and
find out that life is indeed often stranger than
fiction.
A Liberated Woman is a light hearted romantic tale of
women, young and old, coming to grips with the evolution
of a new social order forming at the beginning of the
twentieth century. Kate Loveday has penned a story that
flows well until the ending, which I felt was a bit
flat. I feel buyers of this book will get enjoyment out
of seeing how the protagonists overcome the different
situations they find themselves thrust into.
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