Saplings Category_Grey Books/Single Women one of the most shocking

one of the most shocking facts to emerge is that ‘the Fabian women deliberately avoided the poorest families… because they wanted to show how the general standard of living among ordinary manual workers was below a level which could support good health or nutrition

she was all the more zestful for new things from life

PREFACE BY JULIA NEUBERGER

written two years after Journey’s End

according to the Guardian

Saplings Category_Grey Books/Single Women one of the most shockingAFTERWORD BY JEREMY HOLMES 384pp ISBN 9781903155059 'I didn't know she wrote novels for grown ups,' people remark about Noel Streatfeild making those of us who have been secretly enjoying them in our mothers' editions, or in battered copies with the green Boots label, feel very lucky. Indeed, Noel had not thought of writing for children until her publisher persuaded to re work the first of her adult novels as Ballet Shoes; this had sold ten million