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The Flight Of The Maidens by Jane Gardam - ISBN: 9780349114248
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Post-war summer: three young women, new beginnings, uncovering secrets.

The Flight Of The Maidens

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    2 December 2001

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Summary

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university. Una Vane, whose widowed mother runs a hairdressing salon in her front room (‘Maison Vane Glory - Where Permanent Waves are Permanent’), goes bicycling with Ray, the boy who delivers the fish and milk. Hetty Fallowes struggles to become independent of her possessive, loving, tactless mother. And Liesel…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349114248
ISBN-10:0349114242
Author:Jane Gardam
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:2 December 2001
Weight:199g
Dimensions:196mm x 127mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

A formidably intelligent, gentle, comic genius … In a hundred years she will be read as Mrs Gaskell is read - A. N. Wilson SPECTATOR

Gardam … has written another jewel. This tale of the three young women is made with a concentrate of humour and compassion. Gardam is a brilliantly subtle comedian who can keep the reader enraptured until the last page - THE TIMES

Jane Gardam has captured the burgeoning renaissance of post-war Britain in her novel THE FLIGHT OF THE MAIDENS. Writing with her usual deft and sensitive touch… Gardam paints scenes like a watercolour and every stroke adds depth and subtlety. The characters are rounded and appealing and humour often bubbles beneath the surface. - Christina McLoughlin, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW

Gardam has a pleasant, accessible style well-suited to a reassuring tale of regeneration and optimism after adversity. - OBSERVER

As a celebration of the rites of passage it rings diamond true. It is light, witty, sharp, yet understanding and sympathetic. It is also thoroughly enjoyable - SCOTSMAN

Gardam blends memory and imagination, intellect and humour, to evoke unsentimentally a vanished England, setting it in the context of the wider world and capturing the bittersweet excitement of leaving childhood behind - DAILY TELEGRAPH

Jane Gardam, as ever, shapes her narrative with wit and aplomb … intelligent, inspiriting and entertaining - INDEPENDENT

About The Author

Jane Gardam

Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.

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