by Jane Gardam · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780452283343
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In the summer of 1946, in a postwar England marked by deprivations and social adjustments, three young women prepare to go to university and explore the world beyond Yorkshire. Hetty Fallowes struggles to become independent of her overbearing mother, Una Vane embarks on a bicycle trip around the countryside with a young man from the wrong side of the tracks, and Liselotte Klein, a Jewish refugee taken in by a Quaker family, heads to London in search of her only relatives to survive the Holocaust. As the three young women struggle to find meaning and love in a new world, they realize that they still have much to learn and that their friendship is perhaps the only constant in an ever-changing world.
Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.
