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FINALIST 

 Pirates Alley

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Wisdom Competition

2011

WINNER 

Piscataqua Press

NOVEL CONTEST

2014

WINNER 

Seacoast Writing

Association

3RD PLACE FICTION

2008 & 2011

AS IF WOMEN MATTERED

And then all the rules changed.

 

1972 – A time of war and Watergate, of Ms. Magazine and consciousness raising. As the post-World War II era of peace, prosperity, and pointy bras gave way to the life-expanding changes of the women’s movement, four women met and over the course of two decades, created a space that allowed them all to thrive, with humor and irreverence, as they each struggled to reconcile the realities of adult life with the expectations of youth.

 

Consciousness raising groups help women live as if women mattered. 

Gloria Steinem, 1972

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REVIEWS & TESTIMONIALS

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"As If Women Mattered takes me vividly back to my own experiences in the early second-wave women's movement and, in its characters' lives, highlights many of the dynamics and issues that made those years so fascinating, so fraught and so fruitful. Thank you especially, Ginny DeLuca, for following the ongoing friendship between these four women over time."

WENDY SANFORD 
Cofounder and coauthor,
Our Bodies, Ourselves

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“Virginia DeLuca’s captivating novel, As If Women Mattered, fuses compelling social drama with page-turning storytelling. Four women, whose consciousness-raising group becomes a life-long, life-saving family of the heart, wrestle with marriage, motherhood, careers and sex, during a time when no one knew the rules anymore, and it was all up for grabs. The entwined stories of these women will keep you up way past midnight, experiencing the extraordinary era when women rose up and found their voices, and each other.”

RANDY SUSAN MEYERS
International Bestselling Author of
The Murderer's Daughters and The Comfort of Lies

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"I loved this book! It is a page-turner! Such a compelling and gorgeous mix of character development and plot threaded through an incredible time in history. You won't be disappointed!"

VICTOR GOULD

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