A warm, compassionate and unfailingly intelligent analysis of how, despite all the advances wrought by feminism and equal opportunities legislation, women still bear full domestic burdens as well as new burdens of work and financial responsibility. It is a rich and rewarding investigation into the improved or worsened condition of mothers' lives. Benn cuts through the gloss to the reality and truth and shows how women occupy a murky, unseen world of twilight feeds where there is never enough time for oneself, where new man does not exist and superwoman is, in fact, "hyperwoman" heading for a nervous breakdown as she manages the double responsibility of home and work.
