THE NOVEL FOR EVERY WOMAN WHO EVER THOUGHT SHE KNEW HERSELF. AND FOR EVERY MAN WHO EVER THOUGHT HE KNEW A WOMAN ... THE WOMEN'S ROOM is the hauntingly powerful story of Mira Ward - a wife of the Fifties who becomes a woman of the Seventies. From the shallow excitements of surburban cocktail parties and casual affairs through the varied nightmares of rape, madness and loneliness to the dawning awareness of the exhilaration of liberation, the experiences of Mira and her friends crystallize those of a generation of modern women. This is perhaps the most important novel yet written about the realities of life experienced by today's women. It is certainly the most moving and compellingly readable - a classic of modern fiction that will establish itself as a landmark not only of literature but of our developing consciousness also.