Who hasn't exclaimed over Jane Austen's Mrs Bennett? What a silly woman is often
the general verdict, and Jane Austen herself was not at all kind about her -
Whoever or whatever they are, I suspect there beats deep in most parents' hearts
the desire to see their children happily settled. Mrs Bennett was stymied by the
cruel powers of the entail. The modern parent -
How are these different aspects reconciled? How do woman negotiate a balance between working and domesticity. And, not least, why are we still so powerfully seduced by the idea of marriage? Why do we love weddings, particularly a family one? These were all themes which rose to the surface as I thought about Daughters… themes which are as stuffed with the comic, tragic and the absurd as they have always been.
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‘With her trademark cool and sensitivity, Buchan effortlessly weaves complex strands
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‘The tangled knots that bind Lara and her brood are unravelled with clear-
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