A Life of Her Own Ellen Feldman,
by Macmillan
Bestselling author Ellen Feldman is back with a clever love story set in 1950s America, when the McCarthy witch hunts hunted down communists.
Fanny Fabricant and doctor husband Max are besotted. “He made her feel not only desired but desirable,” and he was canny he “knew the way to her heart was through her mind”. The couple was also of the same mind about the most important issue of the day: All around them men were going off to war and women were wrestling with whether to have a child. “If the man didn’t come home, he would at least leave something of himself!” Max says his genes are crying out to go
