Jane Gardam
The Flight of the Maidens
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The Whitbread Award-winning author of the Old Filth trilogy captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood.Yorkshire, 1946. The end of the war has changed the world again, and, emboldened by this new dawning, Hetty Fallows, Una Vane, and Lieselotte Klein seize the opportunities with enthusiasm. Hetty, desperate to escape the grasp of her critical mother, books a solo holiday to the Lake District under the pretext of completing her Oxford summer coursework. Una, the daughter of a disconcertingly cheery hairdresser, entertains a romantically inclined young man from the wrong side of the tracks and the left-side of poli…
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The Whitbread Award-winning author of the Old Filth trilogy captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood.Yorkshire, 1946. The end of the war has changed the world again, and, emboldened by this new dawning, Hetty Fallows, Una Vane, and Lieselotte Klein seize the opportunities with enthusiasm. Hetty, desperate to escape the grasp of her critical mother, books a solo holiday to the Lake District under the pretext of completing her Oxford summer coursework. Una, the daughter of a disconcertingly cheery hairdresser, entertains a romantically inclined young man from the wrong side of the tracks and the left-side of politics. Meanwhile, Lieselotte, the mysterious Jewish refugee from Germany, leaves the Quaker family who had rescued her, to test herself in London. Although strikingly different from one another, these young women share the common goal of adventure and release from their middle-class surroundings through romance and education. Gardam's lean, fast-paced prose is at turns hugely funny and deeply moving. . . . [Her] characters are acutely and compassionately observed.-Atlantic Monthly Quirky, enchanting . . . with lively, laugh-out loud elan.-The Baltimore Sun Splendid . . . Gardam's style is perfect.-The New York Times Book Review With winning charm and wit . . . Gardam frames her story in dozens of crisp, brief scenes featuring deliciously dizzy conversation.-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Ebullient, humorous, and wise, this is a novel to savor.-Booklist The portrait of postwar England as conventions crumble and the country is rebuilt is terrific.-Publishers Weekly
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60945-405-0
- EAN: 9781609454050
- Produktnummer: 22231933
- Verlag: Europa Ed
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.7 cm 413 g
- Gewicht: 413
Über den Autor
Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year. She is winner of the David Higham Prize, the Royal Society for Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and the Silver Pen Award from PEN. Her novels include: God on the Rocks, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Old Filth, a finalist for the Orange Prize; The Man in the Wooden Hat, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book prize, and Last Friends, finalist for the Folio Award. She lives in the south of England, near the sea.
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