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The Girl Now Leaving

(1995)
(The first book in the Lu Wilmott series)
A novel by

 
 
Lu grows up in the Portsmouth slums of the 1920s. She has to work in the infamous staymaking trade, where women endure conditions so appalling that Lu realizes things must change. She loves two very different men, finds deep friendship and develops a growing political awareness.


Genre: Sagas

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