Freya / Anthony Quinn.
Publication details: London : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2016.Description: 455 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781910702512
- 1910702501
- 9781910702505
- 1900-1999
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Women -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Female friendship
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Women
- Women -- Conduct of life
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- England -- London
- Great Britain
- 823.92 23
- PR6117.U36 F74 2016
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | QUI | Available | 064645 |
London, May 1945. Freya Wyley, twenty, meets Nancy Holdaway, eighteen, amid the wild celebrations of VE-Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship that will endure on and off for the next two decades. Freya, wilful, ambitious, outspoken, pursues a career in newspapers which the chauvinism of Fleet Street and her own impatience conspire to thwart, while Nancy, gentler, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both friends become entangled at university with Robert Cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives. Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s, Freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman's life and loves against a backdrop of Soho pornographers, theatrical peacocks, willowy models, priapic painters, homophobic blackmailers, and political careerists.