
The Following Girls
by Louise Levene
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Pub Date 13 Feb 2014 | Archive Date 13 Mar 2014
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) | Bloomsbury
Description
For fans of An Education and My Summer of Love -- a powerful and biting social satire about a girl struggling to find freedom in 1970s suburbia
When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway
mother to her unborn child: 'Dear Jeremy' it began 'or Amanda...'
Mrs Baker still sends Christmas presents – Meccano, a fishing rod, a Spare Rib
subscription – but her daughter is now in the coolly capable hands of
Mr Baker’s second wife, Pam, who trots home from work on her stacked
heels to her formica ‘dream kitchen’, where she curls butter, grills
grapefruit and swigs sherry from the bottle hidden under the sink.
Meanwhile Amanda's dad, soured by his experiences with free-spirited
women, crossbreeds fuchsias and salivates over glossy prospectuses in
search of a new school for his disappointing daughter.
The
happiest days of your life? Not for Baker, sixteen and sick of it as she
moves miserably between lessons packed with palm fibre and the use of
the dative. Baker's only solace is her fifth form gang – the four
Mandies – and a low-calorie diet of king-sized cigarettes, until she
teams up with Julia Smith, games captain and consummate game player. And
so begins a passionate friendship that will threaten her future, menace
her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone she holds
dear.
The Following Girls weaves the minutiae of Seventies
girlhood into an unsparing tragi-comedy of shrinking horizons,
dangerous alliances and not-so-happy families.
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Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781408842898 |
PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |