The Flight of the Maidens (Paperback)

from CarltonC

A warm and humorous story of three girls growing up in Yorkshire at the end of the Second World War and preparing, in their final summer holidays after school, to enter university. For such a short book, this very successfully covered a lot of experience, especially for Hetty, who goes away to st...

from Notesmusings

Three girls come of age in the weeks after they emerge from school. All of them are poor, all have won scholarships to elite English colleges. It is Yorkshire in 1946. The people in their local town like to be seen as generous and self-sacrificing, but tend to be petty and narrow, repressed and s...

from hemlokgang

Audiobook.............a lovely British, post WWII coming of age story of three young women. Completely simple, yet full of life wisdom. I really enjoyed this story.

from BookConcierge

From the book jacket: It is the summer of 1946. A time of clothing coupons and food rations, of postwar deprivations and social readjustment. In this precarious new era, three young women prepare themselves to head off to university and explore the world beyond Yorkshire, England. My reactions: I...

from Eily

Three young women are about to start university life in post-war England: Hester, much brighter than she thinks, with a clinging, manipulative mother; Una, who sometimes feels she would rather marry her railway porter boyfriend than go away to college; and Liselotte, who arrived on the kindertran...