by JaneGardam (Author)
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. Hetty Fallowes struggles to become independent of her possessive, loving, tactless mother. And Lise-Lotte Klein, the German girl who had arrived in 1939 on a train from Hamburg, uncovers tragedy in the past and magic in the present. The Flight Of The Maidens is peopled with extraordinary characters, who are evoked with all the humour, compassion and eye for detail that mark Jane Gardam as one of Britain's most gifted and original novelists.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 07 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 070116963X
ISBN 13: 9780701169633
Book Overview: A delightful period novel, which 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.