25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'I wish Mum would loosen up a bit. Ridiculous really, dancing attendance on an old woman who doesn't know she's there. Won't catch me doing that. The whole guilt trip. All that guilt her mother laid on her. I know she tried hard not to lay it on me but it was part of her, she couldn't not ooze with it.
'I wish Mum would loosen up a bit. Ridiculous really, dancing attendance on an old woman who doesn't know she's there. Won't catch me doing that. The whole guilt trip. All that guilt her mother laid on her. I know she tried hard not to lay it on me but it was part of her, she couldn't not ooze with it. Guilt.' Is there really any difference between the generations? Three women find different ways of escaping the reality of their daily lives. Gerry grew up seeing her mother Chloe escape into the world of romantic fiction. A trip to France offers Gerry a brief escape into an unthreatening romance. She seizes it. When a similar escape is offered at home, how will she deal with it? Her daughter Heather avoids decisions about her university study in dreams about a future with her lover, who comes from an exotic unknown world which has no room for her conventional, privileged existence. Chloe lies in a nursing home after a stroke, silently reliving her life, while her daughter and granddaughter make duty visits, preoccupied with their own concerns. Have these concerns changed so greatly between the three generations, representing the past, the present, and the future? There are sinister tones of manipulation and possession under the guise of benevolence.., no villains... just ways of exploring women's domestic lives and relationships and their yearnings for something more exciting than what has been previously allotted by convention..
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