Ridley Road
By: Jo Bloom
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780297608288; 9781780228242; 9780297608295
Subjects: Hairdressing; Political activists; Self-realization in women; Fiction
Description: When her beloved father dies, Vivien Epstein - a 22-year-old hairdresser from Manchester - leaves her hometown for London in the hope of finding Jack Fox, a man she had a brief, but intense, love affair with some months ago. All Vivien has to go on is one letter Jack sent to her father, with the address of a boarding house scribbled hastily on the back, and very soon her hopes of finding him are dashed. Resigned to this fact, she settles into London life, working in Oscar's - a hairdressing salon in Soho - and spending her nights at home with her motherly landlady. But still, she pines for Jack. That is, until she becomes involved in the resurgence of anti-facism through the owner of Oscar's, Barb, and her husband Alan.
Table of contents: title: When her beloved father dies, Vivien Epstein; title: a 22-year-old hairdresser from Manchester; title: leaves her hometown for London in the hope of finding Jack Fox, a man she had a brief, but intense, love affair with some months ago. All Vivien has to go on is one letter Jack sent to her father, with the address of a boarding house scribbled hastily on the back, and very soon her hopes of finding him are dashed. Resigned to this fact, she settles into London life, working in Oscar's; title: a hairdressing salon in Soho; title: and spending her nights at home with her motherly landlady. But still, she pines for Jack. That is, until she becomes involved in the resurgence of anti-facism through the owner of Oscar's, Barb, and her husband Alan.