A Vision of Loveliness

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A Vision of Loveliness

A Vision of Loveliness

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It's a parable with echoes of the case of James Bulger – only the families are middle-class, so what goes awry cannot be blamed on violent films or poverty. Set in the 1960s, this novel follows Jane who is forced to live with her horrible aunt, and who wants to live a glamorous life.

Suzy seems like the embodiment of all the book’s advice and Jane is more than happy when she takes her under her wing. But add them together and they can make the difference between rich and poor, married of single, happy ever after and a miserable broken home.

This she does and strikes up a friendship with the bag’s owner, Suzy, who is a part time model and who looks remarkably like Jane herself. I liked the little advice things at the beginning of each chapter- a unique take on the quotes before a chapter. She contrasts insular, lower middle-class Norbury with Jane’s glamorous downtown life, but refuses to make either appealing. But I guess the story isn’t really about that, it’s about Jane and how she got to that point, how she “climbed” that social ladder and used the people around her to get exactly what she wants.

I learned (and loved) homemaking skills of cooking, canning, sewing, knitting, and decorating from Mom and my 4-H leaders. Invasive vines choked other vegetation while their intricate stringy yet fluffy seeds seemed possible fractals of a nebula.

At one (fascinatingly evoked) Great Portland Street evening-gown supplier, a screen separates the lily-scented showroom from a slum-like models’ dressing space: shades of the swing doors of George Orwell’s Paris restaurant days in Down and Out in Paris and London.Ghastly Business, published by Bloomsbury in July 2011, is a deliciously wicked, witty tale of villainy, scandal, sex and science. Read the (slightly misleading/possibly more morally hopeful than the tale itself) background information/blurb from the book here. It begins like a humourous, if at times grim and snobbery bound, snapshot of a previous era in Britain’s history (the late 1950s/early 1960s to be precise) that is all kitchen sink-esque non-glamour and pre consumer choice/disposable incomes; condemned gas geysers, every meal tipped out of a can, twitching curtains and conformity, dead-end jobs and maybe one good suit or outfit to wear if you’re lucky. Beautifully realised and astutely plotted story about the kind of girls your mother might have warned you about. Staying with the period theme, but stepping away from The Ultimate Book List, A Vision of Loveliness takes place in 1960’s London and follows a social climbing Jane James as she gets her first foot hole into the life she so desperately wants through Suzie, a young girl about time whom she looks strikingly similar to.



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