Down Among the Women (Cassandra Editions)

About this book

'Down among the women. What a place to be!' Wanda has raised her daughter Scarlet to be as tough and independent as she is. When Scarlet finds herself a single parent at the age of twenty, she is frightened. Her friends are no happier: Sylvia, a born victim; respectable Jocelyn, hopelessly trapped in her dull, bourgeois existence; Audrey, who finally breaks out of her conventional life; and Helen, beautiful, vibrant, and doomed. Can these women break the straps of convention and become who they really want to be? Set in 1970s London, following the lives of a gro.