Member Reviews
Ava grew up in a caravan park in Jervis Bay, New South Wales, her mother deserted her and her father Jim when Ava was a toddler. Ava is exceptionally smart, she moves to Sydney and shares a flat with May.
Laurie goes to university only at the insistence of her father Eric a professor, and he's a fan of Karl Marx. Her mother died in childbirth, and Laurie dreams of freedom, having a child of her own and to get as far away from Cambridge as she can get.
Ava earns a scholarship to Cambridge, here she meets Colin Byrne-Beaumont and they get married. Ava and Laurie both struggle with losing their mothers at a young age, the two women’s meet at Cambridge and their lives become linked in a much unexpected way.
I received a copy of Two Daughters by Alison Edwards debut novel from Alantic Books Australia and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Using her own days studying at Cambridge as inspiration and at England's most prestigious educational insinuations, where students protested for a month about fees, and well over a hundred staff weren’t being paid the correct amount, night climbing or scaling the college gates after curfew, fraud and plagiarism all occurred.
A story about motherhood, family, social class, secrets, and self-discovery, saving the environment and trying to escape from your past. I’m sure this book is written for people who are smart and academic and a lot of it I just didn’t understand and I liked Laurie’s, May and Patrick’s characters and three stars from me.