What price will Edna Pontellier pay to be free? She seems to have
everything she needs - her loving husband Léonce, two beautiful
children, and a wonderful home in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. But
deep inside her burns a creative fire that longs to be unleashed. One
summer changes everything. When Edna meets Robert, she starts to
question all that she was taught to believe. Is her comfortable marriage
nothing more than a cage? Will she ever be able to explore her
creativity and passion to the full? Is it possible for a woman to be
responsible for the needs of others and still to live her own life to
the full?
Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy
development of primary and lower secondary age children while
introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage.
Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the
world's greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic
stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as
a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other
cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the
original versions.