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Freya
Freya | Anthony Quinn
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'Extraordinarily evocative... A fantastic book.' - Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club London, May 1945. Freya Wyley, twenty, meets Nancy Holdaway, eighteen, amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship that will endure on and off for the next two decades. Freya, wilful, ambitious, outspoken, pursues a career in newspapers which the chauvinism of Fleet Street and her own impatience conspire to thwart, while Nancy, gentler, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both friends become entangled at university with Robert Cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives. Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s, Freya plots the unpredictable course of a womane(tm)s life and loves against a backdrop of Soho pornographers, theatrical peacocks, willowy models, priapic painters, homophobic blackmailers, political careerists. Beneath the relentless thrum of changing times and a city being reshaped, we glimpse the eternal: the battles fought by women in pursuit of independence, the intimate mysteries of the human heart, and the search for love. Stretching from the Nuremberg war trials to the advent of the TV celebrity, from innocence abroad to bitter experience at home, Freya presents the portrait of an extraordinary woman taking arms against a sea of political and personal tumult.
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cathysaid
Freya | Anthony Quinn
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My #20BestOf2020 is actually only nine. Not nearly enough reading this year given that it‘s been...you know...2020. But still, these were really good and the best of what I did read. Several new to me authors and my favorite is tagged. These lists are really helping me get excited about my reading plans for the new year and it‘s nice to look toward to that.

batsy I loved The Tenant of Wildfell Hall! 4y
Cinfhen Dead Mountain and Apartment are both on my kindle waiting for me 🤗🤗🤗 4y
BarbaraBB I loved Apartment! Looking forward to another (and better) year following your choices! 4y
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cathysaid @batsy Right? I‘d never heard of it until my husband bought it for me 4y
cathysaid @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB I‘ve taken screenshots of both your posts 😁 4y
Megabooks So glad there are so many Teddy Wayne fans on litsy!! Cathy and @BarbaraBB 💙👍🏻 2020 was definitely a weird year (to put it mildly)! 4y
cathysaid @Megabooks Weird indeed 4y
CarolynM I love The Golden Age ❤️ 4y
cathysaid @CarolynM So glad I stumbled across it! 4y
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cathysaid
Freya | Anthony Quinn
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Here are my #top6reads so far for 2020. My favorite is tagged and they appear in order of favorite-ness. And looking at this graphic, I‘m realizing my tastes are strangely eclectic. 🤔

batsy Tenant of Wildfell Hall is so good! 4y
cathysaid @batsy It is! And I hadn‘t heard of it until my husband bought me a fancy-pants edition. 4y
BarbaraBB Great choices! I really need to read Tenant! And great sounds good too. Thanks! 😘 4y
CarolynM I loved The Golden Age 4y
cathysaid @CarolynM So good! A pleasant random find for me. 4y
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cathysaid
Freya | Anthony Quinn
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1. Currently the back patio. But once it hits the 90‘s in Georgia, it‘ll be inside until September. 🥵
2. Mediterranean Chicken. I have lots of olives due to my use of olive juice in dirty martinis...so I finally found a recipe for all those olives. SO YUMMY. https://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/mediterranean-olive-chicken/
3. Tagged
4. Two - Cat & Dog

@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

#Friyayintro

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cathysaid
Freya | Anthony Quinn
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Just finished and I am immediately jealous of the person who gets to read this novel for the first time. Two women meet in the streets of London during VE Day celebrations. We follow their unlikely friendship for twenty years through successes, failures, jealousies, jobs, men and even an estrangement. An intricate look at the messiness and reward of friendship - I wish I were meeting them for a gin and tonic later this evening. 5⭐️
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BarbaraBB Well you know how to sell it! #stacked 💕 4y
cathysaid @BarbaraBB oh good! I hope you enjoy it. And I checked out From the library Very Nice today after seeing your review 😄 4y
BarbaraBB Exciting! I hope you like it, it is such a fun read (don‘t expect heavy Literature 😉) 4y
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cathysaid
Freya | Anthony Quinn
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“...it was a sanctum for the sort of people who regarded daylight as an unsatisfactory hiatus between nights....”

I‘m loving Quinn‘s putting-together-of-the-words in setting the mood. Perfection.

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cathysaid
Freya | Anthony Quinn
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“The bus, which had been snailing up Whitehall, had nearly come to a standstill in the crowd.”

This is such a good book. It opens in the streets of London during VE Day...thus the stalled bus.

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