Mab seemed to love being married, and clearly Osla wanted to be, but Beth didn’t feel that tug.
I get annoyed by novels that assume all female characters must end up married and settled down with children. Real women find their happiness in all kinds of different domestic arrangements, and I like my heroines to reflect that: Eve in The Alice Network stays single and childless; Nina from The Huntress is married but doesn't ever want to be a mother; Beth in The Rose Code is happy to live alone and have regular liaisons with a lover who himself is in a settled and stable open marriage!
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