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Daisy Chain - a novel of The Glasgow Girls (Hardcover)
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Daisy Chain - a novel of The Glasgow Girls (Hardcover)
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List price R536
Loot Price R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
You Save R97 (18%)
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'A wholly delightful novel' Allan Massie, Scotsman 'An excellent
homage to The Glasgow Girls... both heart-breaking and hopeful' -
Amy Jefferies, Scots Magazine 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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