The Crowded Street

`Then suddenly we find ourselves left alone in a dull crowded street with no one caring and our lives unneeded, and all the fine things we meant to do, like toys that a child had laid aside.' In the stifling confines of Edwardian Yorkshire, Muriel Hammond is waiting for her life to begin. Marriage, respectability, duty - these are all part of the script - but just as she believes that `men do as they like' while women `wait to see what they will do', she dreams of a life beyond those bounda...