num_pages: 278
description: From the author of Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden HatIt is the summer of 1946, a time of clothing coupons and food rations, of postwar deprivations and social readjustment. In this precarious new era, three young women prepare themselves to head off to university and explore the world beyond Yorkshire, England. The bookish 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 Nazis.As the three 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.
language: English
title: The Flight of the Maidens
titlecomplete: The Flight of the Maidens
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, World War II, Drama, Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 1279
publisher: Plume