![]() ![]() Kate 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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