In postwar 1946 Yorkshire, three young women on the cusp of college confront family, love, and independence.
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In postwar 1946 Yorkshire, three young women on the cusp of college confront family, love, and independence.
"It is the summer of 1946. It is a time of clothing coupons and food rations, of postwar deprivations and social readjustment. In this precarious, new world Hetty Fallowes struggles to become independent of her suffocatingly possessive mother, whose jealousy of her daughter runs almost as deep as her pride in Hetty's accomplishments.
While the bookish Hetty rebels intellectually against her family, her best friend, Una Vane, asserts her nascent womanhood with a sexually interesting fellow from ...
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Nascent romance and sexual awakening; non-graphic intimacy
Postwar setting with references to wartime losses and hardship
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Jewish refugee character; Quaker hosts mentioned
No magic or witchcraft present
No occult content present
Postwar class, social change, and leftist politics in 1946 England
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Possessive mother-daughter conflict; refugee wartime trauma
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