Freya

<p>Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship...<br /><br />Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both friends become entangled with Robert Cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their lives. <br /><br />Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the 1960s, <em>Freya</em> plots the unpredictable course of a woman's life and loves in extraordinary times.</p>