The Friendly Young Ladies (Paperback, 1st vintage books ed)

Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naïve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the stifling environment of her parents’ home in Cornwall to seek out her sister, Leo, who had run away nine years earlier. She finds Leo sharing a houseboat, and a bed, with the beautiful, fair-haired Helen. While Elsie’s arrival seems innocent enough, it is the first of a series of events that will turn Helen and Leo’s contented life inside out. Soon a randy young doctor is chasing after all three women at once, a neighborly friendship begins to show an erotic tinge, and long-quiet ghosts from Leo’s past begin to surface. Before long, no one is sure just who feels what for whom.

Mary Renault wrote this delightfully provocative novel in the early 1940s, creating characters that are lighthearted, charming, and free-spirited partly in answer to the despair characteristic of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness or Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour. The result is a witty and stylish story that offers exceptional insight into the world of upcoming writers and artists of in 1930s London, chronicling their rejection of society’s established sexual mores and their heroic pursuits of art and life.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage
Release date:	May 2003
First published:	May 2003
Authors:	Mary Renault
Dimensions:	202 x 132 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	293
Edition:	1st vintage books ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-71421-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: special interest > Literature of special Gay & Lesbian interest > Literature of special Lesbian interest Promotions
LSN:	0-375-71421-9
Barcode:	9780375714214

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