# Room For A Single Lady

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- Authors: [Clare Boylan](https://www.bookquiver.com/clare-boylan)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1998-08-20

## Description

'A sharp eye for detail that makes reading Boylan's work such a pleasure' Sunday Times To Eugene Rafferty, girls are like money - they have to be saved. Despite living in 1950s Dublin, his three daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood. However, as fortunes decline the Rafferty's are forced to take in lodgers and these independent but eccentric outsiders introduce the girls to new experiences - sex and superstition, of spite, of true love and tragedy. For in a world caught between the aftershock of the war and the transforming liberalism of the 1960s there are two states of womanhood: single, and caught up in the comic and desperate search for a suitable husband, or married and enduring the claustrophobia of suburban life. Evoking the magic of childhood and adolescence with rare subtlety, wit and warmth, Room For A Single Lady is both delightfully comic and genuinely moving.

## Editions

### Room For A Single Lady

- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4914-620-1
- Published: 2023-03-23
- Language: en_GB

### Room For A Single Lady

- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4910-901-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1998-08-20
- Language: en_GB