The Girl Now Leaving - Hardcover

Burton, Betty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002253038 ISBN 13: 9780002253031

Verlag: HarperCollins, 1995

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Reseña del editor:

Lu Wilmott grows up in the Portsmouth slums of the 1920s and works in the staymaking trade, where women endure appalling conditions. Whilst recovering from diptheria in Hampshire, she discovers a robust fighting spirit, new and challenging friends and the first stirrings of sexual attraction.

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Lu Wilmott grows up in the Portsmouth slums of the 1920s. Stricken by diphtheria, she is sent to the Hampshire countryside to recover, and in this idyll she discovers a robust fighting spirit, new and challenging friends, and the first stirrings of sexual attraction.

But, faced with little choice, she follows her mother and aunts into the city's infamous staymaking trade, where young girls and old women endure conditions so appalling that Lu comes to realize that things must change. And she can be the instrument of that change.

Her journey to maturity, from proud but shy child to energetic woman, encompasses love, deep friendship, and a growing political awareness as the Spanish Civil War casts its influence over Europe. Above all, Lu is a survivor – and one to be reckoned with.

'The dilemmas Lu faces ... are still relevant to women today, and she emerges as a typical Betty Burton heroine – strong, independent'
DORSET EVENING ECHO

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0002253038
• ISBN 13: 9780002253031
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352