Songs from the Violet Café

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The lives of a group of young women converge in 1960s New Zealand in a moving time- and continent-spanning saga.The experience of working for Violet Trench in her small-town cafe in the summer of 1963 shapes the lives of a group of women including Jessie Sandal, who follows Violet's influence as far as Cambodia.Fiona Kidman explores family relationships and the difficult journey to female independence.