The Crowded Street Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper Although the novel has been

Although the novel has been ignored for nearly a hundred years

with no prospect of her life getting anything but worse’ (Afterword)

which first came out in 1940 and therefore leaves a huge question mark over its happy ending (for the war has only just begun)

Do not meddle with the garden at that hour

she was all the more zestful for new things from life

The Crowded Street Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper Although the novel has beenPREFACE BY MARION SHAW 328pp ISBN 9781903155660 The theme of The Crowded Street, 1924, is one that is familiar from other Persephone novels: it was then assumed that young women would stay at home while looking for a husband. Muriel, who believes that men do as they like whereas women wait to see what they will do, lives in a town in Yorkshire waiting for what? She tries to conform to the values of her snobbish, socially ambitious mother; she tries to