![]() ![]() ![]() The novel's core is about women liberating themselves: mothers from husband, sons, daughters, and dependence daughters liberating themselves from parents, siblings, women friends, work when work demands too much, and, of course, men. It is offensive in Margaret Clarke as a form of killing off the trouble rather than solving or living with it. It is offensive in Ian Fleming even though his novels are spoofs. It is offensive in Dickens who believes in his story. He wants the cute flirt and the sensible, steady care-giver. Some men, like David in Dicken's David Copperfield, want them legally. It is clear that men want more than one woman. The Haw that strikes this reviewer is her adoption of that appalling male novelist's solution of killing off the unwanted female. Margaret Clarke tries to do too much, a not uncommon fault in a first novel. The Cutting Season has two flaws and at least as many virtues. ![]()
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