Cover of Girls

Girls

by Bowen, John

182 pages2023McNally Jackson BooksISBN 9781946022714
Fiction

About this book

In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specializing in the work of local artisans and farmers, they lead an enviable, enviably settled life. So it’s no catastrophe when Sue, the younger of the two, feels the need to take a month to travel on her own, leaving Jan alone to run their stall at the Inland Waterways Rally Craft Fair. Nor is it any real threat when a kindly gay man named Alan lends Jan a hand in Sue’s absence, or when the two wind up sharing some wine and even a bunk for the night. If Jan turns out to be pregnant some weeks after Sue’s return to the nest, what’s that but cause for joy? And when Alan happens to come visiting, by and by, finding the delighted girls raising a beautiful baby boy, who can blame him for wanting to share in a small part of their bliss? Yes, theirs is an enviable, enviably settled life. And the girls will defend it with every tool at their disposal.

Publication Details

Publisher
McNally Jackson Books
Published
2023
Pages
182
ISBN
9781946022714
Language
en

About Bowen, John

John M. Bowen is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York, York, United Kingdom. He joined the Department in 2005 from Keele University, where he was Professor of Modern English Literature. His main research areas are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, in particular the works of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian novelists, but he has also written on modern poetry and fiction, as well as essays on literary theory. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens, a Fellow of the English Association (FEA), and has given many keynote addresses and public lectures around the world. He is the author of *Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit* (2000, 2003) and has edited Dickens's *Barnaby Rudge*, Anthony Trollope’s *Barchester Towers* (2014) and *Phineas Redux* (2011), and *Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies* with Robert L. Patten. He is the author of more than fifty academic articles and book chapters, including contributions to the *Oxford History of the Novel in English*, *Oxford Reader’s Companion to Dickens*, the *Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins*, and the *Cambridge History of English Literature*. Source: [University of York](https://www.york.ac.uk/english/people/john-bowen/#profile-content)

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