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Freya

Author: Anthony Quinn and Kim Hicks  

Once again Anthony Quinn shows himself a master at writing fiction that works on every level.

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Once again Anthony Quinn shows himself a master at writing fiction that works on every level.

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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.Beneath the relentless thrum of changing times and a city being reshaped, we glimpse the eternal: the battles fought by women in pursuit of independence, the intimate mysteries of the human heart, and the search for love. Stretching from the Nuremberg war trials to the advent of the TV celebrity, from innocence abroad to bitter experience at home, Freya presents the portrait of an extraordinary woman taking arms against a sea of political and personal tumult.

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About the Author

Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2014 he was the film critic of the Independent. He is the author of four very successful novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, Half of the Human Race, The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize, and Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs. Kim Hicks is a British actress and voice artist. She has performed in a number of one-woman shows and stage productions, including Courtship, An Audience with Sarah Guppy and The House of Bernarda Alba. Hicks is a long-time audiobook narrator, voicing more than 80 audiobooks. She is regularly praised by AudioFile magazine for her ‘rich, lush, mellifluous narration’.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bolinda Publishing | Bolinda Audio Books
Published
3rd March 2016
ISBN
9781489091109

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