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My best friend was Angela Bennett / Suzanne Hillier.

by Hillier, Suzanne (Young adult writer).

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Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2021.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Fiction.

Women lawyers -- Fiction.

Sexual abuse -- Fiction.

Nineteen forties -- Fiction.

Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.

Inanna poetry & fiction series.

9781771338639 (pbk.)

260 p. ; 23 cm.

"Two high school friends take very different paths during WWII. The traditional Angie falls in love -- forever -- with a sailor, whose life is suddenly ended by a German torpedo, while her friend Dorothy attempts something unheard of in the forties: going to law school. Newfoundland during the wartime forties was hardly Rosie the Riveter Country. So, when Angie loses her sailor lover and marries the boy next door -- who turns out to be a sexual sadist -- she fears there is no way out. She turns to her friend Dorothy, a woman lawyer at a time when such aspirations seemed impossible. But it's what happens after that, in a world where feminism did not exist, that's surprising -- and unsettling. This novel is a tale of loss, female friendship, and of a time long past, when being a woman had few advantages, and many disadvantages. Filled with tragedy, magic realism, and humour, this novel paints a picture of women's lives in the forties, and of the prevailing and enduring power of female friendship."--Provided by publisher.

Canadian fiction.

Historical fiction.

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