Rachel Rachel Author:Margaret Lawrence This distinguished and engrossing novel marks a giant step forward in the development of an important and brilliant writer. Rachel, Rachel features an immediately recognizable woman whose father's death forces her to leave college and return home to teach grade school. Trapped by a demanding mother, Rachel suffers daily assaults to her self resp... more »ect from her students, her principal and an older fellow teacher who insinuates himself into her life. Repressed and self-conscious, she has reached the point where she must either explode or retreat into private fantasy. Instead, she unexpectantly finds release in a joyous but baffling affair through which she finds the strength to free herself.« less