Triple Challenge: '69 to '70

About the Book

Advised to protect their graduate student husbands from stress, three women face confl icts within each marriage amid anti-war protests, drug use, racial unrest and the emerging feminist movement.

Told from the women’s perspectives, the story begins in harmony, but turns to discord as:
• Meg struggles to balance motherhood with her own academic ambitions, and copes with her husband’s violent mood swings;
• Rosemary, daughter of a British coal-miner, copes with her upperclass husband’s verbal abuse;
• Terry, an artist familiar with the drugs of the time, married to a former Navy SEAL, balances her anti-war activism against her husband’s Vietnam memories.

About the Author

Jane M. E. Roberts has published a novel for young adults, short stories, a one-act play, and several text books. Jane has taught in England, Nigeria, and the U.S.A. including two years as a teaching assistant at Yale 1969 – 1971, an experience on which this book is based.