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A Morning with Barbara Toner at Tura Marrang Library

Photo credit: © Lorrie Graham

Event

A Morning with Barbara Toner at Tura Marrang Library


Time & date

10:30am - 11:30am, 3rd March 2018


Location

Tura Marrang Library View map

Tura Beach Drive, Tura Beach, NSW 2548


Tickets

Bookings Not required

Free to attend

Phone: 02 6499 2340

About

In 1919, thanks to the war and Spanish flu, potential husbands are thin on the ground. So four young women take an unusual course of action to solve all their problems . . . Join Barbara Toner and Tura Marrang Library for a morning discussing Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband

It’s September 1919. The war is over, and everyone who was going to die from the flu has done so. But there’s a shortage of husbands and women in strife will flounder without a male to act on their behalf.

And in the southern New South Wales town of Prospect, four ladies bereft of men have problems that threaten to overwhelm them.

Beautiful Louisa Worthington, whose dashing husband died for King and Country, is being ruined by the debts he left behind. Young Maggie O’Connell, who lost her mother in childbirth and her father to a redhead, is raising her two wayward brothers and fighting for land she can’t prove is hers. Adelaide Nightingale has a husband, but he’s returned from the war in a rage and is refusing to tackle the thieving manager of their famous family store. Pearl McCleary, Adelaide’s new housekeeper, must find her missing fiancé before it’s too late and someone dies.

Thank God these desperate ladies have a solution: a part-time husband who will rescue them all. To find him, they’ll advertise. To afford him, they’ll share . . .

Barbara Toner is an acclaimed author and columnist who has written extensively about the lot of women in all its manifestations, with all its glorious and less glorious intricacies, both in fiction and non-fiction.

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Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband
In 1919, thanks to the war and Spanish flu, potential husbands are thin on the ground. So four young women take an unusual course of action to solve all their problems . . .
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