This book, supposed to be a treatise in support of women, was a huge disappointment. Many professional reviews were excellent, but I agree with so many of the readers' comments who got very little out of the many generations of a family whose matriarch starved herself to death in honor of women and possibly gaining equality for them in England. Most members of the family were quite uninteresting and also cold as people. And after plodding through many details that were provded, but not adequately explained, this book just stopped. Walbert is not an author I will read again. I also did not care for the fact that so many men were at most 2-dimensional and their motives were not usually positive, regardless of what they did. ( )

This book is just all over the place between characters and time periods. I don't like the style of writing which is all over the place as well. Couldn't keep up. Gave up. ( )

Not sure why I finished this book. it irritated me. The characters, all women descended from each other, felt irritatingly passive. Not sure why the author chose to write about them, as I did not feel that she liked them much. In the end, neither did I. ( )

A fictional "history" of women in one family, from the early British suffragist to the modern American college student. Although the issues the women grapple with through the generations ring true, because the "history" is short there is not space for depth or resolution. A fast read with interesting character sketches. ( )

A complicated tapestry tracking generations of women, each trying to discover themselves and what each believes worth fighting for. I really enjoy the story, but having listened to the audiobook there were moments when the changing narrators were hard to follow. I'd recommend reading rather than listening. ( )