When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen,she becomes embroiled with the wayward John Gaunt andfalls in with London's bohemian crowd. In this city of seductive,shifting morals,smoke-filled jazz-clubs and glamorous espresso bars,Nell must master her new found independence and learn to strike her own course.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099529361Number of pages: 384Weight: 260 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 28 mm
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The atmosphere of the cheap cafés...is subtly caught. Packed tight with wit and understanding,it lights the London SceneChipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky,determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them,too,not to mention melodramaStella Gibbons...an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laughThe Jane Austen of the 20th centuryStella is stellar
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