The Sea Change of Angela Lewes: A Novel

252 pp. In its broadest sense, this novel is concerned with the question of equality between men and women. Angela Lewes is the exemplary wife of an academic, a wonderfully accomplished housewife and mother. As she approaches forty a balky interior independent self begins to emerge from beneath her role-playing and finally brings into question the continuance of a marriage that has been warm and enriching to her. "There is ideology in the background of the book... But this is a novel not of images but of action, in the Aristotelian sense. A compelling inner movement drives it." - Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Hudson Review.