The friendly young ladies
Renault, Mary2014
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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 Thames where she writes Westerns for a living, she shares her boat - and her bed - with Helen. When Peter pays a visit, turning his attention from one 'friendly young lady' to the next, he disturbs the calm for each of them - with results unforeseen by all.
Main title:
The friendly young ladies / Mary Renault.
Author:
Edition:
New edition / introduction by Sarah Dunant.
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2014.
Collation:
336 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Virago modern classics ; 72.
Notes:
Previous edition: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1944.
ISBN:
9781844089529 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1817439