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Laura Anthony was a powerful story that touched my soul. I felt all the feelings that only a good book can elicit. I felt joy and sorrow, fear and anger, happiness and hopefulness. I shed tears and I laughed. I was outraged and delighted. It was a beautifully gut wrenching story. I cannot adequately articulate how much I loved The Women on Platform Two!
It is officially one of my top 10 favourite books of all time and a book that will stay near and dear to my heart for years to come.
The Women on Platform Two is a historical fiction novel about a group of women fighting for their rights (including access to birth control) in Ireland during the late 1960’s and early �70’s. Did you know that when an Irish Woman married she legally had to stop working? Her role and responsibility was to be a good housewife and to produce children, regardless of her wants and desires. Did you know that contraceptives were illegal in Ireland until a small group of women band together to fight for their rights and demand legal access to contraception? Well I sure didn’t, but this book brought me up to speed on the fate of Irish women during that era.
But the story was more than just women banding together to fight for rights that should be theirs. The Women on Platform Two was also about a beautiful friendship and the facade of a perfect life. How one can be beautiful, wealthy, married to a prominent man and seem to have it all, but behind closed doors, your life is a living hell. You can be poor in money and material goods but rich with love and family. This is exactly how it was for our two main characters, Maura and Bernie. An unlikely friendship developed between the two women, who lead polar opposite lives yet they shared an unbreakable bond and love for one another.
I won’t give anymore details or spoilers as this book does not publish until March 11th, 2025. But if you love historical fiction and books that focus on family, friendship, resiliency and marriage and advocate for women’s rights and equality, then this book is definitely for you.
Thank you so much Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me an Advanced Reder’s Edition of The Women on Platform Two by Laura Anthony. It is a book that I will cherish.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pub Date: March 11, 2025
Laura Anthony was a powerful story that touched my soul. I felt all the feelings that only a good book can elicit. I felt joy and sorrow, fear and anger, happiness and hopefulness. I shed tears and I laughed. I was outraged and delighted. It was a beautifully gut wrenching story. I cannot adequately articulate how much I loved The Women on Platform Two!
It is officially one of my top 10 favourite books of all time and a book that will stay near and dear to my heart for years to come.
The Women on Platform Two is a historical fiction novel about a group of women fighting for their rights (including access to birth control) in Ireland during the late 1960’s and early �70’s. Did you know that when an Irish Woman married she legally had to stop working? Her role and responsibility was to be a good housewife and to produce children, regardless of her wants and desires. Did you know that contraceptives were illegal in Ireland until a small group of women band together to fight for their rights and demand legal access to contraception? Well I sure didn’t, but this book brought me up to speed on the fate of Irish women during that era.
But the story was more than just women banding together to fight for rights that should be theirs. The Women on Platform Two was also about a beautiful friendship and the facade of a perfect life. How one can be beautiful, wealthy, married to a prominent man and seem to have it all, but behind closed doors, your life is a living hell. You can be poor in money and material goods but rich with love and family. This is exactly how it was for our two main characters, Maura and Bernie. An unlikely friendship developed between the two women, who lead polar opposite lives yet they shared an unbreakable bond and love for one another.
I won’t give anymore details or spoilers as this book does not publish until March 11th, 2025. But if you love historical fiction and books that focus on family, friendship, resiliency and marriage and advocate for women’s rights and equality, then this book is definitely for you.
Thank you so much Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me an Advanced Reder’s Edition of The Women on Platform Two by Laura Anthony. It is a book that I will cherish.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pub Date: March 11, 2025
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January 29, 2025
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