The flight of the maidens
By: Jane Gardam.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Young women -- England -- Fiction.; England, Northern -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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 Lieselotte Klein, who had arrived in 1939 on a train from Hamburg, uncovers tragedy in the past and magic in the present."--Jacket.