Room For A Single Lady by Clare Boylan

Room For A Single Lady by Clare Boylan

'A sharp eye for detail that makes reading Boylan's work such a pleasure' Sunday Times To Eugene Rafferty, girls are like money - they have to be saved. Despite living in 1950s Dublin, his three daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood. However, as fortunes decline the Rafferty's are forced to take in lodgers and these independent but eccentric outsiders introduce the girls to new experiences - sex and superstition, of spite, of true love and tragedy. For in a world caught between the aftershock of the war and the transforming liberalism of the 1960s there are two states of womanhood: single, and caught up in the comic and desperate search for a suitable husband, or married and enduring the claustrophobia of suburban life. Evoking the magic of childhood and adolescence with rare subtlety, wit and warmth, Room For A Single Lady is both delightfully comic and genuinely moving.

A sharp eye for detail that makes reading Boylan's work such a pleasure * SUNDAY TIMES *
This enchanting book, so evocative of the moods and sensations of childhood has the bite of pure gold * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Witty.. beautifully written * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
Boylan writes like an angel, but an angel with a knowing eye * DAILY MAIL *

Clare Boylan was the author of five novels and three volumes of short stories. Her last novel, ROOM FOR A SINGLE LADY, was published by Little, Brown in September 1997.
She died in May 2006.

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ISBN 13	9780349109015
ISBN 10	034910901X
Title	Room For A Single Lady
Author	Clare Boylan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1998-08-20
Number of pages	384
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