![]() The account of the abortion is graphic and portrays the complete lack of control women had over their bodies and their sexuality before the victories of the women’s liberation movement of the next decade. Unfortunately Brenda becomes pregnant and in a period prior to the 1967 Abortion Act she terminates the pregnancy by bathing in boiling water and drinking a bottle of gin. However, after payday Arthur and his friends spend their weekends drinking and fighting, to “swill” the factory out of their system and explode the “piled up passions” from monotonous work.Īrthur is engaged in a passionate affair with Brenda, the wife of a friend, and subsequently juggles his time between secret nights with Brenda, her married sister Winnie and a more traditional relationship with the younger Doreen. ![]() ![]() Weekdays are spent “sweating his guts out” in the bicycle factory and daydreaming through repetitive work. The novel opens in the midst of a rowdy Saturday night, “the best and bingiest glad-time of the week” for 22 year old Arthur Seaton, a factory worker in post-war Nottingham. ![]()
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