Bad Girls Good Women

Bad Girls Good Women
Rosie Thomas

From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.In London, on the brink of the Sixties, two runaways plunge into the whirl of Soho nightlife.Mattie faces the hard slog of repertory companies and a sleazy strip-club in search of fame as an actress. But, when it comes, stardom is not enough, and the love that Mattie desires seems to elude her.Julia choose marriage and Ladyhill, a beautiful Dorset manor house. Then, after the tragedy, she realises that to achieve true independence she will have to risk her marriage and her child.Though each has to make her own choices, their friendship – despite the guilt and betrayal – endures over three turbulent decades.

Bad Girls, Good Women

BY ROSIE THOMAS

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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First published in the United Kingdom in 1988 by Michael Joseph

Copyright © Rosie Thomas 1988

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Ebook Edition © APR 2014 ISBN: 9780007560561

Version: 2018-10-25

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The music, very loud music, filled the corners of the old house.

In the big room where the musicians in their corner were lapped by a sea of dancers, it was as solid as a wall. Overhead, where Julia stood in the shadows at the top of the stairs, it penetrated the thick stone walls and the oak-boarded floors as an insistent bass beat. She stood for a minute to listen to it.