6/9/2023 0 Comments Mariana by Monica DickensKate and Emma, said BBC producer and director Douglas Allen, was written '.with such human warmth and understanding, relieved, quite often, with flashes of humour, that it is a masterpiece'.Ī 'masterly, intricate counterpoint of two Londoners' lives.’ Sunday Telegraph Within ten days of its publication in October 1964 the book went into a third printing, and was later dramatised for BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre. Kate and Emma has been called Monica's most accomplished work. What will happen to Sammy - and Kate and Emma's friendship? The novel moves towards the inevitable fate of Sammy, Kate's young son, whom she slowly starts to mistreat as she herself was mistreated as a child. The two young women form an unlikely yet believable friendship, but their paths diverge as Emma finds a career and a suitable marriage while for Kate there is only teenaged pregnancy, too many children and a slide into squalor and despair. Kate and Emma deals with the role of poverty in the ill-treatment of children, seen through the eyes of middle-class magistrate's daughter Emma but directly experienced by slum waif Kate.
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