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  • A Woman on the Edge of Time

  • A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mother’s Young Suicide
  • By: Jeremy Gavron
  • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
  • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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A Woman on the Edge of Time

By: Jeremy Gavron
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
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A son's search for his mother, a feminist pioneer - and a casualty of her time.

In London, 1965, a brilliant young woman - a prescient advocate for women's rights - has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a suicide note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book: The Captive Wife. No one had ever imagined that Hannah Gavron might take her own life. Beautiful, sophisticated, and swept up in the progressive 60s, she was a promising academic and the wife of a rising entrepreneur. But there was another side to Hannah, as Jeremy Gavron reveals in this searching portrait of his mother.

Gavron - who was just four when his mother killed herself - attempts to piece her life together from letters, diaries, photos, and the memories of old acquaintances. Ultimately, he not only uncovers Hannah's struggle to carve out her place in a man's world; he examines the suffocating constrictions placed on every ambitious woman in the mid-20th century.

©2016 Jeremy Gavron (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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