This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university. Una Vane, whose widowed mother runs a hairdressing salon in her front room ('Maison Vane Glory - Where Permanent Waves are Permanent'), goes bicycling with Ray, the boy who delivers the fish and milk. Hetty Fallowes struggles to become independent of her possessive, loving, tactless mother. And Li ...
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The Flight of the Maidens
Gardam, Jane
Kartoniert, 288 S.
Sprache: Englisch
198 mm
Little, Brown Book Group (2001)
ISBN-13: 978-0-349-11424-8
Titelnr.: 53109460