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Daisy Chain - a novel of The Glasgow Girls (Paperback)
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Daisy Chain - a novel of The Glasgow Girls (Paperback)
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List price R316
Loot Price R259
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'A wholly delightful novel' Allan Massie, Scotsman Lily Crawford
and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm
friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their
ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a
dancer. The two women's eventful lives are intertwined. In the
years before the First World War, the girls lose touch when Jeanie
runs away from home and joins a dance company, while Lily attends
The Mack, Glasgow's famous school of art designed by Charles Rennie
Mackintosh. A chance meeting reunites them and together they
discover a Glasgow at the height of its wealth and power as the
Second City of the Empire - and a city of poverty and overcrowding.
Separated once again after the war, Lily and Jeanie find themselves
on opposite sides of the world. Lily follows her husband to
Shanghai while Jeanie's dance career brings her international fame.
But the glamour and dissolution of 1920s Shanghai finally lead Lily
into peril. Her only hope of survival lies with her old friend
Jeanie, as the two women turn to desperate measures to free Lily
from danger. Inspired by the eventful and colourful lives of the
pioneering women artists The Glasgow Girls, particularly that of
Eleanor Allen Moore, Daisy Chain is a story of independence,
women's art, resilience and female friendship, set against the
turbulent background of the early years of the 20th century.
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