Böcker av Barbara Wolfenden

Until the 1960s, proper young women were raised to remain virgins until marriage, to be good mothers and wives, and to depend on husbands for status and economic survival. With the feminist movement, women learned they could make decisions regarding their own destiny. It was a dream of liberation and equality. Work plus motherhood: women could have it all!Yet today the dream is elusive. Women's issues remain universal love, controlling partners, career, motherhood, and aging while the goal has become the journey.Join author Barbara Wolfenden in Are We There Yet? to explore how some women handle common and not-so-common problems. You will be surprised.

As the Nazi threat spread across Europe, prominent English citizens established a school for traumatized refugee Jewish children. Pupils and teachers alike showed resilience in the face of war-time deprivations, facing down the suspicions of locals while mastering the intricacies of the English language. The German-born administrators, themselves refugees, helped the children through loneliness and fear with a progressive-inspired education which they graced with kindness. The teenagers watched the orange skies lighted by Luftwaffe bombings of London forty miles to the north yet, still ignorant of the horrors of the Holocaust and the fate of their parents, they came of age in a place open to fun and comradeship. In the process, they formed unbreakable, lifelong bonds.