A Pin to See the Peepshow

Part of the British Library Women Writers series, rediscovering forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers with beautiful new editions

Julia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a more exciting and glamorous life away from the drab suburbia of her upbringing. Her work in a fashionable boutique in the West End gives her the personal freedom that she craves but escape from her parental home into marriage soon leads to boredom and frustration. She begins a passionate affair...