Wonder Girls - Couverture rigide

Jones, Catherine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1849838828 ISBN 13 : 9781849838825

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Catherine Jones

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A tender exploration of the lives of women over time … Full of wit, truth and a watchful intelligence, the different eras of the 20th century are vividly evoked' Wendy Wallace, The Painted Bridge
It is 1928 and the world is changing. Mrs Dixie's dress shop on the high street is selling ladies' trousers and Amelia Earhart lands in the sea off Wales, in an airplane. But when Ida Gaze announces she is leaving the turquoise waters of the town's new lido to swim the treacherous Bristol Channel, with the help of her best friend Frieda, gossips say it can't be done.
It is 1937, and one of the coldest nights of the year. In a redbrick maternity hospital on a grand London square, an orphaned baby is smuggled out under cover of darkness by a young girl.
Years later, an old lady named Cecily searches for the truth to discover how she is linked with two girls from the Roaring Twenties who boarded a train for the Big Smoke looking for adventure in a changing world.
Inspired by the achievements of some of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century, Wonder Girls marks the arrival of a glorious new voice in Catherine Jones.
'An imaginative tour de force, moving and well-written and the characters are superb' Daily Mail
'An impressive debut' The Bookseller

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'Don't follow the crowd,' she'd be telling schoolgirls at the swimming baths. 'Follow your own star and when you have achieved your goal you will have that with you for the rest of your life...'
In 1928, a plucky young Welsh girl named Ida Gaze swims the Bristol Channel with the help of her best friend Freda and the inspiration of her heroine Amelia Earhart.
In 1937, on the instructions of the matron, a young skivvy at a grand maternity hospital in London smuggles out an orphaned baby on one of the coldest nights of the year.
Now, in a small town in Wales, an old lady named Ceci pieces together these stories and is about to discover the surprising ways in which they link to her own. It begins with two girls in the twenties who left their small Welsh village for the Big Smoke, feeling that the world was changing and everything was possible…

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849838828
• ISBN 13: 9781849838825
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416