Love Songs And Lies

By Libby Purves

Subjects: Roommates, Female friendship, Fiction, Women college students

Description: Sally, Kate and Marienka. Three young women who meet as undergraduates in 1970s Oxford and share their shabby canalside house with Max Bellinger. Although their paths diverge once they leave Oxford, Sally stays in touch with all the housemates and their lives remain interwoven throughout the second half of the 20th century.