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The Camperlea Girls

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Laura Fletcher is a bright, shy, talented young girl desperately conscious of her plainness and restive in a comfortable but confining home in which communication between the generations has come to a dead standstill. Laura's dreams are of freewheeling London life and of unattainable beauty of the local teenage idol, Vicky Logan. When Vicky bored at the vacation-time departure of her best friend, singles Laura out as her companion for the summer, Laura is overwhelmed. She imagines a summer of excitement and experience, with her own rather quiet charm revealed for the first time to masculine notice in the reflected radiance of Vicky's loveliness.

But Vicky's incandescence draws more to her than gentle companions like Laura. Careening around the countryside on the motorcycle that caused her brother's death, Vicky makes Laura her accomplice in off-limit trips to the furious, noisy dances in the factory dance hall on the dark side of town. Vicky is inexorably drawn to one of the factory men, even, and as Laura only too late realizes, especially when he has revealed himself as a violent psychopath.

A taut subtle novel that conveys a mounting sense of menace. It vividly displays the force, insight and economy of style which have distinguished the author's previous works.

Language: English

Pages: 184

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1969

The Camperlea Girls

0/5 ( ratings)

Laura Fletcher is a bright, shy, talented young girl desperately conscious of her plainness and restive in a comfortable but confining home in which communication between the generations has come to a dead standstill. Laura's dreams are of freewheeling London life and of unattainable beauty of the local teenage idol, Vicky Logan. When Vicky bored at the vacation-time departure of her best friend, singles Laura out as her companion for the summer, Laura is overwhelmed. She imagines a summer of excitement and experience, with her own rather quiet charm revealed for the first time to masculine notice in the reflected radiance of Vicky's loveliness.

But Vicky's incandescence draws more to her than gentle companions like Laura. Careening around the countryside on the motorcycle that caused her brother's death, Vicky makes Laura her accomplice in off-limit trips to the furious, noisy dances in the factory dance hall on the dark side of town. Vicky is inexorably drawn to one of the factory men, even, and as Laura only too late realizes, especially when he has revealed himself as a violent psychopath.

A taut subtle novel that conveys a mounting sense of menace. It vividly displays the force, insight and economy of style which have distinguished the author's previous works.

Language: English

Pages: 184

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1969

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