A WOMAN WITHOUT A MAN – In Paperback and on Kindle

Foreward by James Kavanaugh Ph.D.

HenryMiller would have liked Corinne Edwards. Not only because she is a beautiful and sensuous woman, but because she writes about what she knows best—the people, experiences and the events in her life.

“All the rest,” says Miller, “is literature and who the hell

needs literature?”

A Woman Without A Man thrills and startles with its unvarnished h-o-n-e-s-t-y, its sensitive mingling of profound pain and poignancy with laughter and love — a gentle autobiography.

It feels like a conversation, over coffee, sitting at her kitchen table.

You discover who Corinne is, but more than that, unwittingly gain a new and fascinating insight into the passion, love, fear and dreams of women everywhere. . . if they had the guts to reveal themselves.

It is a tender tale, marking the journey of a woman’s search for wholeness — with or without a man. Her husband has died prematurely but she does not glamorize her relationship with him.  He was a controlling conservative, bonded to a creative redhead who had entered a world of new feminine freedoms — without the anger of a Germaine Greer and her cats.

The reader feels like a privileged eavesdropper as her story unfolds through letters and poetry. Her poetry is always good, often humorous, and sometimes utterly brilliant. It is placed in all the right spots to give passion and balance to prose insights.

The letters she writes to her three highly gifted sons should be required reading for maturing mothers who so often get lost in their own fight-flight life of trivia.

So very many of our mothers abandoned us, not at birth, but in the throes of pettiness and immaturity. They feared to pay the price that creates a wise woman. We are dragged into their weary memories of cookies and eternal childhood.

They are aware of whom we once were, but without ever knowing who and what we had become.

A Woman Without A Man leaps beyond the parameters of the title, although it covers well that most significant thesis. Ms. Edwards is ultra feminine without a hint of man bashing – neither the glib guru nor clinging to an eternal sexual image.

She loves boldly without infesting her man/woman relationships with self-pity, cynicism or despair. She can lose a man she loves without damning him or trampling on herself.

And she does not deny the years which have made her beautiful.

Most of all, in her insightful and often fragile letters to her sister, June, she touches the very depths of a deep and totally honest relationship with another woman. She laughs, nurtures, reveals, strips away the banalities and dares to admit her deepest fears, risks and seeming failures.

It gave me a whole new insight into the beauty, heart and soul of a mature and gifted woman in a society flooded with female clothing styles, sexual manipulations and the superficial, meaningless drama in our press and our TV shows.

I fantasized a dialogue between Corinne and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Rachel Carson, Margaret Sanger, Dorothy Parker, Marianne Williamson, Katherine Hepburn and Helen Hayes. Rachel Maddow and Ann Coulter probably wouldn’t come, but should.

Corinne Edwards is in that class of disappearing women with talent and humanness. They have been replaced by the scandal sheets.

Being A Woman Without A Man is a challenging transition— and Corinne Edwards, in a kaleidoscope of poetry, letters and prose insights really helps.

Even men like me.

James Kavanaugh – Author, Poet, Novelist

A WOMAN WITHOUT A MAN

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Video interview with Linda Mills

Cover picture courtesy of Mandie with thanks

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