Penguin 1st Edition, published 1946.
When eighteen-year-old Jane gets a job in a draper’s shop in a small town in Lancashire in 1912, so begins a great adventure. At first she delights in learning to cut fabric, getting to know the customers and making friends with the other shop-girls, but the terrible working conditions – low wages, too-small portions of kippers and bread, tidying up until late on Christmas Eve – lower her spirits.
She spends her days off visiting the department stores of Manchester and London, which teach her as much about unwanted male attention as about the business of clothes, but before long an unexpected turn of events allows her, thrillingly, to open her own dress shop; amid struggles with the cleaning and cooking, trips to the local library, and a painful love affair, she continues to fight for the right to realise her own potential.
Condition grading: Very Good. Bright covers. Some creasing to spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1946.
When eighteen-year-old Jane gets a job in a draper’s shop in a small town in Lancashire in 1912, so begins a great adventure. At first she delights in learning to cut fabric, getting to know the customers and making friends with the other shop-girls, but the terrible working conditions – low wages, too-small portions of kippers and bread, tidying up until late on Christmas Eve – lower her spirits.
She spends her days off visiting the department stores of Manchester and London, which teach her as much about unwanted male attention as about the business of clothes, but before long an unexpected turn of events allows her, thrillingly, to open her own dress shop; amid struggles with the cleaning and cooking, trips to the local library, and a painful love affair, she continues to fight for the right to realise her own potential.
Condition grading: Very Good. Bright covers. Some creasing to spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
