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With her children evacuated and her spouse at the front end, Tory Rate is grudgingly sharing the house with her irascible mom, working at the local gelatin manufacturer - to help the war work - and generally doing nearly as well as could be likely in difficult times. Her tranquil life is tossed into turmoil, however, when her prisoner-of-war spouse, Donald, makes an outrageous demand for sexual gratification: He wishes a dirty notice! Horrified, at first, that Donald is being turned into some sort of monster by the Nazis, Tory's disgust gradually gives way to a feeling of marital obligation, and taking in the libraries, bookshops, general population conveniences, and barber shops of Southeast London, she starts a quest to understand the words of carnal desire - a quest that takes a sudden and unexpected turn into far more dangerous territory. Beginning with an work of unintentional cannibalism, and flirting with a scheme to end world hunger by the use of proteins pills, Characters from an Anonymous Woman ranges greatly across the Continent and yet always returns home: to family, to people, to human relationships. Woodward offers a prescient examination of the ways that we both nurture and consume one another in the face of adversity.
