Yesterday?s Houses

When sixteen-year-old Marianne Flowers is invited to a party in a genteel house she has no idea that the house and what she experiences there - including the stately bathroom - will change her life. Not to mention the boy who introduces her to red wine, sophisticated conversation and an apparently liberated future. But when marriage to Charles turns out to be far from liberating, Marianne finds her escape in literature, and realises there is a whole bright world unfolding before her. How will this new, independently minded Marianne find her place? Mavis Cheek's twelfth novel shows her at the height of her powers in a funny, poignant account of a woman whose journey to freedom, independence and good-quality plumbing will delight fans of her previous work.