Janet Tillim

The Other Side of the Coin Janet Tillim

Born an ocean apart within amonth of each other at the dawn of the twentieth century, two women, one rearedin poverty, the other in wealth, find their lives entwined when their childrenfall in love and marry. Growing up in a tenement inLondon, plain looking Nellie Rand learns early on that she isn't pretty aftershe is ridiculed by a neighbor and teased unmercifully by her step brothers. Certain no man will want her for his wife she sets her sights on going toAmerica to marry her unsuspecting first cousin. Pretty Charlotte Merker glides through her privileged life expecting allwill always be right in her world...until...she meets and marries MathewRaskin, a man her father despises. When Charlotte's father loses everything inthe stock market crash and her mother divorces him, Mathew convinces hismother-in-law to sue her husband for misappropriation of their daughters' trustfunds, devastating Charlotte. Charlotte's daughter, Jennifer,considers the impact her mother and mother-in-law have had on her inestablishing her own set of values, for as most women know, with all theireducation and independence, the values rooted in them as girls as theywitnessed the unspoken gestures and behavior of their mothers, still belong tothat past generation of women. Jennifer finally learns some surprising truths.