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1950 - Seven year old Carol Martin is placed encased within an flat iron lung, struck down by the killer disease polio. Distraught at her aspect, her mom, Violet, wonders if this is her abuse - for Carol is the love child who shouldn't have been given birth to.... Family of Women is the storyplot of three decades of women. Bessie: scarred by a years as a child of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to troubling lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet: one of Bessie's four children, marries young to flee, into the forearms of a man whose life will be broken by battle. Linda: grows up on a huge housing house in the 1950s with aged sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Smart and full of energy, she craves education and something more than the life span she recognizes around her. Torn from her longed-for place at the grammar school, she offers up hoping for anything better. It requires a tragic love affair to make her question the restrictions of her life and the secrets that haunt her family. Spanning over fifty percent of the previous century, Family of Women is a tale of 1 family - and of the joys, challenges, and changes in women's lives.
