Secret Lives Eleanor Jenkinson - Softcover

Eleanor Jenkinson has several lives: some she lives, others she'd like to.
Since sliding into the bondage of marriage, household, children and chores, she has imagined lives where her dreams of emancipation, achievement, recognition and passionate love are not crushed by domesticity.

In pursuit of these dreams, she has taken herself to foul places, visited foreign worlds, made peculiar liaisons, broken many rules and made some new ones of her own. More importantly, she has written fragments of herself into sixty-four notebooks, two unpublished novels and several short stories in an attempt to create a coherent vision of who she is, and how women like her can best survive in a hostile society.

Giving us glimpses of all her worlds, Eleanor Jenkinson steers us through her conflicts and confusions, obstacles and obsessions, leaving us to wonder, as she does, whether the lives she has imagined are really better and happier than her own.

'Candid, celebratory, funny and philosophical'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'A disturbing and witty tale about the hopes and dreams of all women'
COSMOPOLITAN