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Anthony Quinn is a British film critic and the author of four previous books including The Streets, short-listed for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize, and Curtain Call, a bestseller and pick for the Waterstones Book Club.
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"Fantastic [...] [A] testament to women who fought for what they wanted in a time of little personal and professional autonomy. Clever dialogue [...] wonderfully captures the personalities, strengths, and weaknesses of major and minor characters alike."
—Publishers Weekly
"Freya is a nuanced work, combining exciting social history, and acute characterization."
—The Spectator
"Freya and Nancy could use another volume; here's hoping."
—The Guardian
"With its busy plot, its drinking and smoking, its crisp wit and contemporary soundtrack [...], Quinn's novel delivers evocative, high-quality entertainment that may well leave readers hoping for a sequel.”
—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Here is a modern woman to be celebrated in all her contradictions and complexity."
—The Evening Standard
Praise for Anthony Quinn
"Quinn is the literary equivalent of Houdini, a novelist who has a particular talent for absenting himself and letting his characters come to life."
—The Independent
"Quinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing."
—Observer
"[Quinn] has a thrilling knack for turning familiar periods of history into something surprising and often shocking, and for making the fortunes and misfortunes of his characters matter."
—Evening Standard
"Fantastic [...] [A] testament to women who fought for what they wanted in a time of little personal and professional autonomy. Clever dialogue [...] wonderfully captures the personalities, strengths, and weaknesses of major and minor characters alike."
—Publishers Weekly
"Freya is a nuanced work, combining exciting social history, and acute characterization."
—The Spectator
"Freya and Nancy could use another volume; here's hoping."
—The Guardian
"With its busy plot, its drinking and smoking, its crisp wit and contemporary soundtrack [...], Quinn's novel delivers evocative, high-quality entertainment that may well leave readers hoping for a sequel.”
—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Here is a modern woman to be celebrated in all her contradictions and complexity."
—The Evening Standard
Praise for Anthony Quinn
"Quinn is the literary equivalent of Houdini, a novelist who has a particular talent for absenting himself and letting his characters come to life."
—The Independent
"Quinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing."
—Observer
"[Quinn] has a thrilling knack for turning familiar periods of history into something surprising and often shocking, and for making the fortunes and misfortunes of his characters matter."
—Evening Standard
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- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1784703125
- ISBN 13 9781784703127
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the author of Curtain Call comes a haunting story of female friendship stretching from VE Day to the swinging SixtiesFreya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship.Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both friends become entangled with Robert Cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives.Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s, Freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman's life and loves in extraordinary times. Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendshipFreya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781784703127
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