The Five Lives of Ms Bennett - Hagemann, Helen
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A GRIPPING STORY OF ENDURANCE: This heart-warming and intriguing novel will have you cheering for Ms Bennett as she navigates away from an unhappy marriage towards a new love! The Five Lives of Ms Bennett is a historical, coming-of-age, family saga. It's about the struggle of a young Australian girl, fed up with her hometown life, only to find that the big city doesn't exactly hold the dreams she wishes for. Themes Love doesn't always find a way. Marrying outside of one's culture elicits problems. Nationality differences exhibit cultural bias and prejudice on both sides. Five Lives: Five…mehr

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A GRIPPING STORY OF ENDURANCE: This heart-warming and intriguing novel will have you cheering for Ms Bennett as she navigates away from an unhappy marriage towards a new love! The Five Lives of Ms Bennett is a historical, coming-of-age, family saga. It's about the struggle of a young Australian girl, fed up with her hometown life, only to find that the big city doesn't exactly hold the dreams she wishes for. Themes Love doesn't always find a way. Marrying outside of one's culture elicits problems. Nationality differences exhibit cultural bias and prejudice on both sides. Five Lives: Five Decades Includes early Australian history, references to colonial heritage, Australia in the fifties, sixties and seventies. The domestic roles of women. Post war lifestyle and conditions. Women's cottage industries. In the extension of Ms Bennett's contemporary lives there are issues such as family loyalty and trust, the vagaries of money and wealth, family jealousy and fraud, domestic violence, alcoholism, rights to education, equality and freedom for women.
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In 2004 Helen Hagemann received a poetry mentorship award from the Australian Society of Authors studying with Jean Kent, a NSW poet. In 2008, she won a Macquarie/Varuna Longlines Poetry scholarship resulting in the publication of a chapbook Evangelyne & Other Poems published by the Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne (2009). Her second collection of Arc & Shadow was published by Sunline Press, Cottesloe, WA (2013). Helen holds a Masters in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has taught prose and poetry in Fremantle in association with the OOTA Writers Inc., and has been accepted into writing residencies throughout the world. The Last Asbestos Town, a debut novel, is now published as a 2nd Edition through the imprint Oz.one Publishing.