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Rainy Day Women

Rainy Day Women

by JaneYardley (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $5.19
Synopsis

It is 1971 - hippies, hot pants and extraordinary footwear. Jo is fifteen, and there is something very wrong at home. The house, an architectural oddity built by an eighteenth-century madman, always had a life of its own but now its sinister goings-on are getting worse. The capable Jo has always coped with her eccentric family but they're getting worse too - and where are her parents? As the Red House crumbles around them, she and her best friend Frankie are determined to solve the mystery so Jo's family can start an ordinary life. But along comes the devastatingly attractive Florian, folk singer and opportunist, to cause a chaos all his own...

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 359
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 02 May 2005
ISBN 10: 0552771023
ISBN 13: 9780552771023
Book Overview: Intelligent, darkly funny novel set in 1970s Essex, about a characterful teenage girl who falls painfully in love for the first time and decides that she needs to escape her eccentric, suffocating family.

Media Reviews
A mystery story, a ghost story, a rites of passage tale - Yardley's novel excels as each. Rainy Day Women manages to capture the strain and pain of teenagers growing up and families breaking down and yet remain upbeat, animated by humour that is sharp but unfailingly generous Daily Mail You'll love this Red Funny, poignant and original Company I'd highly recommend this...a gripping mystery, funny and dark, which evokes the spirit of the Seventies Woman Following the lovely Painting Ruby Tuesday comes a tale equally spotted with music references and beautifully evoking teenagers growing up in the 1970s. A crumbling Essex house takes centre stage: its hauntings hide a darker secret. However, it's the light touch and genuine humour that leave you revisiting the story for days. Excellent throughout Sarah Broadhurst, The Bookseller
Author Bio
Jane Yardley was brought up in Essex in the 1960s. She has a Ph.D. from a London medical school and works on clinical projects around the globe. Her first novel, Painting Ruby Tuesday (which was written on aeroplanes), was shortlisted for the Pendleton May Guildford Arts First Novel Prize. A Saucerful of Secrets is her third novel.