A review by poppymaeve
Freya by Françoise Hardy, Anthony Quinn

3.0

"Freya" is a lighthearted and enjoyable read. Okay, perhaps lighthearted isn't the right word. It has the feeling of a book written in the 40s-60s about a girl trying to make her way in the post-war world, but a non-censored book. It wasn't quaint and overtly feminine as perhaps one would expect, the setting moving from post-war Oxford to London in the 1960s. The protagonist has an awfully foul mouth and finds herself in...certain situations that defiantly wouldn't have graced the pages of a writer contemporary to the time. In this way it is refreshing. Quinn also sheds light on how "career women" were treated at this time, an endlessly interesting topic that never ceases to amaze me.

Spoiler

I was also hoping all throughout the book that something romantic would happen between Freya and Nancy. I adore strong female friendships, so I found it strange that I was hoping this (as it may devalue their friendship and make it just about sex), but it just somehow felt right.

It is also probably worth my saying that I only got this book out of the library because I liked the cover. I didn't even read the blurb.