The Woman DestroyedFirst published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one. The Woman Destroyed is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to rebuild her life. In the first story, The Age of Discretion, a successful