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The Friendly Young Ladies (Virago modern classics) (Paperback)

by Mary Renault (Author)
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  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (21 Jun 1984)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 086068525X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0860685258
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 12.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,013,799 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Unsual and slightly puzzling....but not a bad book, 3 Oct 2007
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An unusual book and a puzzling one...i'm not sure really what it's about or what the point of it was, but it was a pleasant read and it was written well. However, I found most of the characters not that likeable or sympathetic with their intermittently cold and flippant behaviour towards each other.

It's set in the 1930s and features a couple of lesbians (one of who writes westerns and is not actually a very committed lesbian) one very shallow and self-absorbed man and one confused young girl - the main character Elsie.

Elsie is a mousy timid little girl who is overwhelmed by her parents constant bickering and dislike of each other and runs away to join her sister who lives on a houseboat on the Thames. Elsie sort of grows up by the end of the novel and...I think... so does her sister. But it's unclear (or it was to me anyway) if the book is actually about Elsie growing up, lesbians, casual sex in the period it was written or just a meandering look at a group of quite dysfunctional people. By dysfunctional, I mean in the sense that they are unable to have intimate and honest relationships with each other, rather than because of their sexual identity or confusion about it.

I did like the book, but am hestiant about it because I'm left wondering if I just didn't get it. Or is that because it wasn't meant as anything too deep? Renault does say she wrote this as an antidote to the Well Of Lonliness, which apparantly (I haven't read it) is a very heavy and depressing book about lesbianism. So perhaps this was meant to be a light fun book about lesbians and different sexuality back when in the days when this whole topic was really taboo. (The Well of Loneliness was banned when it was first published and people could only buy illegal copies published in France.)
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