Six clever girls who became famous women : a novel

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'... The first part of this novel is about six girls at school in 1960; later we meet Kathy, Greer, Caroline Heather and Raeleen again in 1995, confronting the issues of middle age