A Little Learning
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (785 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RN745R |
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| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
But will their friendship survive when Janet falls for Ruth's brother, Ben? Marriage to a Catholic girl would go against everything his community holds dear. Struggling to fit in at her new school and picked on by the other girls, Janet befriends Ruth, another lonely pupil whose Jewish family has suffered many hardships. Can an ordinary girl dare to be different? The compelling new best seller from Birmingham's Queen of Fiction. She passes her 11-plus and wins a scholarship to go to a good grammar school, but her father refuses to believe that girls have the right to do anything other than look after their husbands and raise children. Janet is determined to make something of herself instead of being chained to a sink with a baby a year like most women of her generation. Janet and Ruth forge a strong friendship through her school life and beyond. When the whole world seems stacked against her, can Janet hold on to her dreams?
"A Little Learning" according to Clare O'Beara. This tale of a bright girl in Birmingham is set just after WW2 and follows her life from the eleven-plus to student teaching.Janet is determined to follow the example set by her own class teacher and study to make something of herself, instead of being chained to a sink with a baby a year like most women. Her mother and aunt support her but her father unsurprisingly says education is wasted on girls and should be giv