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Title: Women Within

Author: Anne Leigh Parrish

Narrator: Ailie Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-17

Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This multi-generational novel presents three women whose paths cross at the Lindell Retirement Home. Constance Maynard, fierce, independent, and proud, reflects on her long life promoting women's rights through her career as a professor of history. Eunice Fitch, the perfect caregiver, is often unlucky in love, yet even in middle age refuses to give up searching for the perfect man. Sam Clark is a young aide with a passion for poetry and small beautiful things, but at war with her own large, ungainly physique. All together they weave a tapestry as rich and complex as the female experience itself.

Members Reviews:

Well done!!

5 stars

What a wonderful book!

Constance Maynard lives in a retirement home. She is fierce, independent and outspoken. She is a woman after my own heart. (When I get to be her age, if I am fortunate, I want to be like her.)

Her caregivers are Sam Clark and Eunice Fitch. Sam is what is euphemistically said to be âa big girl.â ((Oh, I hate that term.) Eunice is kindly and generous, but seems to be rather doomed at love â or so she believes.

Constance never married, but has a daughter. But we learn far more about that in the novel. âOh, what a tangled web we weaveââ She was a professor of history and an ardent defender and promoter of womenâs rights. This is a very important theme in the book and makes it sing with promise.

I really liked this book. It was well written, almost lyrical in its wording. The plotting was very fine. The characters were believable and likeable. These three women forge a bond that is heartwarming and made me smile.

I want to thank Reagan Rothe / Creator, Black Rose Writing for forwarding to me a copy of this most wonderful book to read and enjoy.

Excellent Writing

Women Within by Leigh Parrish is one of the books that take you by surprise. It's not a heart pounding grab by the throat novel but a novel rich in characters.

Women Within is is about three very different women at the Lindell Retirement Home. Constance is in her eighties reflects back her life as a scholar and fierce advocate of women and women's rights. This is all at a time in history when strong women were still consist threat. I love how she never apologized or downplayed her intelligence.

Sam and Eunice both work at the retirement home. We follow both as they try and find there way to self acceptance and happiness.

I was a little confused at first that Eunice and Sam became central characters since the beginning of the novel is so focused on Constance, her daughter, and her step mom Lois. Regardless I enjoyed the book and the writing was so smooth I hardly noticed the time fly by. I will definitely be seeking out other books by the author.

It's a book I'll recommend if for no other reason

I found the stories of Constance, Eunice, and Sam to be touching and moving. The author's ability to weave the three stories together through the conclusion showed a strength of talent and craft. These women weren't always likable, but they were, to me, inspirational and interesting. What each story shows gives us is something each of us is already familiar with - dealing with expectations and rejections from family and society, and how different women react and flourish or fail, at least, in their own minds.