A GRIPPING STORY OF ENDURANCE: This heart-warming and intriguing novel will have you cheering for Ms Bennett as she navigates away from an unhappy marriage towards a new love! The Five Lives of Ms Bennett is a historical, coming-of-age, family saga. It's about the struggle of a young Australian girl, fed up with her hometown life, only to find that the big city doesn't exactly hold the dreams she wishes for. Themes Love doesn't always find a way. Marrying outside of one's culture elicits problems. Nationality differences exhibit cultural bias and prejudice on both sides. Five Lives: Five Decades Includes early Australian history, references to colonial heritage, Australia in the fifties, sixties and seventies. The domestic roles of women. Post war lifestyle and conditions. Women's cottage industries. In the extension of Ms Bennett's contemporary lives there are issues such as family loyalty and trust, the vagaries of money and wealth, family jealousy and fraud, domestic violence, alcoholism, rights to education, equality and freedom for women.