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The Reading Party by Fenella Gentleman
English | MP3@192 kbps | 10h 31m | 866.9 MB
It is the 1970s and Oxford's male institutions are finally opening their doors to women.Sarah Addleshaw - young, spirited and keen to prove her worth - begins term as the first female academic at her college. She is, in fact, its only female 'Fellow'.Impulsive love affairs - with people, places and the ideas in her head - beset Sarah throughout her first exhilarating year as a don, but it is the Reading Party that has the most dramatic impact.Asked to accompany the first mixed group of students on the annual retreat in Cornwall, Sarah finds herself illicitly drawn to one of them, the suave American Tyler. Torn between professional integrity and personal feelings, she faces her biggest challenge to date.A fresh view of Oxford, seen through the eyes of a young woman historian appointed to a male college in 1976, who tells her own story with wit and feeling in this original and charming novel.