Mary W. Walters
Autor de Write an Effective Funding Application: A Guide for Researchers and Scholars
Sobre El Autor
Mary W. Walters is an award-winning author and editor who has worked with academics for nearly twenty years. She is the former awards facilitator at the University of Saskatchewan.
Obras de Mary W. Walters
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 39
- Popularidad
- #376,657
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 8
It isn't.
Rita is trapped in a horrible marriage with a man who pretty much married her to get free housekeeping and childcare for his utterly horrible children. And then he starts to "work" at home, and rather than him chipping in and dealing with HIS kids, he abdicates...and abdicates even more when his mother moves in with him and contributes nothing except added stress for Rita. Plus, he wants her to have a baby!
Eventually Rita does develop a spine, but during most of the book she is downtrodden. And even after the spine-growing- she's still stuck with the obnoxious stepkids, her selfish and oblivious husband who is not even supporting the family, etc.
This was well-written, but very NOT light, and very sad.
I gave it 3 stars because it IS well-written, but also is far more depressing than the cover suggests.… (más)