The Friendly Young Ladies
A Virago Modern Classic
$34.54
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2014
Summary
Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets - Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from home and goes to live with her sister Leonora, who escaped eight years earlier.
But there are surprises in store for conventional Elsie as her sister has a rather bohemian lifestyle: not only does Leo live in a houseboat on the T…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844089529 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844089525 |
| Author: | Mary Renault, Sarah Dunant |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Undeniably charming … has an enormous nostalgic attractiveness - New YorkerWritten with rare insight - Boston GlobeA very lively and human story - New York Times Book Review
Undeniably charming … has an enormous nostalgic attractiveness - New Yorker
Written with rare insight - Boston GlobeA very lively and human story - New York Times Book ReviewAbout The Author
Mary Renault
Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford’s Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault’s vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
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