What a lovely little read! Several women, from
different backgrounds, with different views on life and with different
hopes for their own lives..... described beautifully over a short period
of time working at F G Goode's department store in Sydney, Australia in
the 1950s. And for three of them, in that short period, great changes
do occur - and are hopes fulfilled? It would only take you an afternoon
to read the 141 pages and find out.
It starts rather slowly, and I found myself wondering if I was really interested enough in any of these women to bother reading on. But so glad I did. Her observations on the conversations of different kinds of women (men hardly get a chance to say much in this book, but as you read on you will see that it does not matter too much) is crystal clear, their hopes and dreams expressed quietly to themselves whilst having to just get on with real life and hope for the best. For all the changes the world has seen since the 1950s, my guess is that we all know at least one of these women even now, wishing and hoping for something. There is a delightful story running through with everyone else's stories which sees a result because of the purchase of a pretty negligee...... A quiet little charmer of a book.
It starts rather slowly, and I found myself wondering if I was really interested enough in any of these women to bother reading on. But so glad I did. Her observations on the conversations of different kinds of women (men hardly get a chance to say much in this book, but as you read on you will see that it does not matter too much) is crystal clear, their hopes and dreams expressed quietly to themselves whilst having to just get on with real life and hope for the best. For all the changes the world has seen since the 1950s, my guess is that we all know at least one of these women even now, wishing and hoping for something. There is a delightful story running through with everyone else's stories which sees a result because of the purchase of a pretty negligee...... A quiet little charmer of a book.
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