ABOUT
THE BOOK

The Flight of the Maidens follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university during the post-war summer of 1946. Una Vane, whose widowed mother runs a hairdressing salon in her front room (Maison Vane Glory- Where Permanent Waves are Permanent), goes bicycling with Ray, the boy who delivers the fish and milk. Hetty Fallowes struggles to become independent of her possessive, loving, tactless mother. And Lieselotte Klein, who had arrived in 1939 on a train from Hamburg, uncovers tragedy in the past and magic in the present.