'BAD GIRLS, GOOD WOMEN' - Softcover

Rosie Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140114300 ISBN 13: 9780140114300

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1989

Synopsis

Julia and Mattie, best friends who run away from their parents in 1950s London, achieve varying degrees of success in their careers during the next thirty years, but both are troubled by a vague sense of unhappiness

About this title

About the Author:

Rosie Thomas writes for magazines and newspapers as well as her fiction. When not writing she spends her time travelling and mountaineering. In 1997 she competed in the Peking to Paris Motor Rally, and she has climbed Mont Blanc as well as travelling to Everest and the Antartic.

From Publishers Weekly:

In the late 1950s, Julia and Mattie, two English teens, flee the stifling confines of their suburban homes for the excitement of swinging London. Over the span of three decades, Thomas ( The White Dove ) makes their lively friendship glow with rude life. From the dim dance floor of the Rocket Club to the streets of Soho and on into the English countryside, the two charm and bluff their way into parties, hearts and careers. As an actress in a gritty modern play, Mattie strikes gold first. Julia drifts aimlessly into marriage with a member of the landed gentry, but a ruinous fire and an unassuaged longing for the love of an elusive aviator sends her back to London to carve out a niche for herself. Thomas has a gift for breathing life into settings and situations that in other hands might be overly familiar. By turns romantic and poignant, and brimming with vitality and spirited dialogue, her deftly written, emotionally involving novel should bring her new fans. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/ promo. BOMC main selection.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140114300
• ISBN 13: 9780140114300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1