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Hostages To Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This autobiographical first novel follows the life of a young woman from 1915 when she has her first baby until early 1933 when it was published. Catherine's husband, invalided out of the army in 1917, buys a doctor's practice in an Oxfordshire village and here the young couple bring up their three children and are deeply involved in the life of the village. It is a surprisingly hard life, full of difficulties and disillusions, but a satisfying one nevertheless. 'Hostages to Fortune' is a brave and unusual novel in its description of both the realities of parenthood and its attendant disappointments - there is no plot as such, and yet the reader becomes absorbed in a life which is in one sense faraway and in another, because this is a domestic novel par excellence, not very different from many such lives today.

Who reads Hostages To Fortune?

Author

Elizabeth Cambridge

Publisher

London: Persephone Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781903155318

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.84 / 5 (54 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14