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  1. Currently available on BBC Sounds: A WORKING MOTHER, by Agnes Owens

    Ten years after WW2, our unreliable narrator Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children & feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and complains, Betty plots her escape…

    @bookstodon

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030x96

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters #audiobooks

  2. Currently available on BBC Sounds: A WORKING MOTHER, by Agnes Owens

    Ten years after WW2, our unreliable narrator Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children & feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and complains, Betty plots her escape…

    @bookstodon

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030x96

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters #audiobooks

  3. Currently available on BBC Sounds: A WORKING MOTHER, by Agnes Owens

    Ten years after WW2, our unreliable narrator Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children & feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and complains, Betty plots her escape…

    @bookstodon

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030x96

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters #audiobooks

  4. Currently available on BBC Sounds: A WORKING MOTHER, by Agnes Owens

    Ten years after WW2, our unreliable narrator Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children & feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and complains, Betty plots her escape…

    @bookstodon

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030x96

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters #audiobooks

  5. Currently available on BBC Sounds: A WORKING MOTHER, by Agnes Owens

    Ten years after WW2, our unreliable narrator Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children & feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and complains, Betty plots her escape…

    @bookstodon

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030x96

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters #audiobooks

  6. “Though her characters struggle, their hardship does not sanctify them. Theirs is not an ennobling suffering. ‘I don’t write about people that are nice people,’ Owens said. ‘They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.’”

    Roxani Krystalli on Agnes Owens, in GUTTER Magazine

    guttermag.co.uk/reviews/a-wee-

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters

  7. “Though her characters struggle, their hardship does not sanctify them. Theirs is not an ennobling suffering. ‘I don’t write about people that are nice people,’ Owens said. ‘They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.’”

    Roxani Krystalli on Agnes Owens, in GUTTER Magazine

    guttermag.co.uk/reviews/a-wee-

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters

  8. “Though her characters struggle, their hardship does not sanctify them. Theirs is not an ennobling suffering. ‘I don’t write about people that are nice people,’ Owens said. ‘They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.’”

    Roxani Krystalli on Agnes Owens, in GUTTER Magazine

    guttermag.co.uk/reviews/a-wee-

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters

  9. “Though her characters struggle, their hardship does not sanctify them. Theirs is not an ennobling suffering. ‘I don’t write about people that are nice people,’ Owens said. ‘They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.’”

    Roxani Krystalli on Agnes Owens, in GUTTER Magazine

    guttermag.co.uk/reviews/a-wee-

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters

  10. “Though her characters struggle, their hardship does not sanctify them. Theirs is not an ennobling suffering. ‘I don’t write about people that are nice people,’ Owens said. ‘They’ve got to be sinners, with a wee touch of goodness here and there, you know.’”

    Roxani Krystalli on Agnes Owens, in GUTTER Magazine

    guttermag.co.uk/reviews/a-wee-

    #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #AgnesOwens #workingclass #workingclasswriters