Book description
On 22 September 1960, six girls gather behind the school toilets to
read Peyton Place: Caroline the leader, Heather the caregiver, Kathy the
actress, Raeleen the explorer, Greer the mystic and Margie the rebel.
Like the historical heroines whose stories are repeatedly held up to
them as models, these girls confront in their various ways the
uncertainty and fears of adolescence. On 22 September 1995 we meet them
again, confronting the issues of middle age. Caroline's on the way up,
Raeleen's now Ra, Margie climbs higher and higher. They re all
relearning in the process the joy of making that vital, terrifying,
thrilling leap 'out into the sun'...
