Rachel Cameron lives in a small town in Manitoba in the mid 60's and is trapped by convention, her family and the times. Rachel works as a teacher and lives with a domineering mother. In her job she follows the rules while inwardly rebelling at the narrow confines allowed her for personal expression while doing her job. At home Rachel's mother uses guilt to control her daughter. When Rachel meets a young man and has a brief relationship, culminating in a suspected pregnancy, she is forced to re-evaluate her life.
On top of all these constraints is Rachel's own character, which feels compelled to evaluate every action she does, and always clamps down on any behaviour that might demonstrate a lack of control on her part.
The heroine Laurence has created here is not a likable one, but making her so makes the reader become even more aware of the rigidity of circumstance which were so stifling to women in the 1960's.
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