Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life as a single mother in America during the Great Depression
Mary is certain that anybody can do anything, especially her sister Betty, who leaves her husband and his chicken ranch and returns to her warm and noisy family in Seattle.
DetailsDebora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Mary tells a publisher about Betty's wonderful new book, which is news to Betty, too.
DetailsDebora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's novel about life during the Great Depression. Mary gets Betty a job as a shorthand typist, but she does not know shorthand and cannot type.
DetailsDebora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Mary sets up a string of disastrous dates for Betty.
DetailsBetty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. February 1933 is a terrible time to be out of a job. Even Mary has a hard time lining up interviews for Betty.
DetailsUnlike Mary, Betty is hopeless at selling advertising, so she gets work as a photographic tinter, a fur coat model-cum-book-keeper and secretary to a mobster.
DetailsBetty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. During the worst of the Great Depression, Betty and her sisters must find cheap ways to have fun.
DetailsBetty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Betty discovers that the Friendly Loan Company is not all that friendly when she cannot keep up her payments.
DetailsBetty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Mary gets Mother an unlikely job as a radio dramatist and Betty has to work with the sinister Dorita.
DetailsDebora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Betty resolves never to go to another office party.
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