Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy

I read this novel when I was about 18 – a few years ago now, let’s not get too specific – and couldn’t remember too much about it except that it made quite an impression on me. Oh, and that my battered copy had, frustratingly, several pages missing at a crucial point! So when I recently came across an intact copy, it seemed like a good time to rediscover whatever it was that made such an impression on me in... whatever year it was. This, Marge Piercy’s third novel, was first published in 1978 (no, that’s not when I read it). Piercy, an American author and poet now in her late sixties, is a versatile writer who has worked in a variety of genres – this, as may ...