The cover on this one was terribly but as they say you should never judge a book by its cover and I am glad I heeded that advice where this book was concerned.
This was a great book, full of wit, and intelligence and really deep emotional understanding.
I'm not sure it would be for everyone due to its complexity but I enjoyed it.

I loved this book.

Freya is the brilliant story of the eponymous character in post-war Britain and her turbulent friendship with Nancy.

Freya is not the most likeable of characters and Quinn has made sure that the reader sees that her flaws are obvious but also that the things that she dislikes most about people, society, and social morals are the faux pas that she keeps producing.

Even though Freya can be very unlikable so can Nancy. You find yourself yelling at both of them as they both make mistakes time and time again. Quinn really shows the truth about friendship. The upsides and the downsides and just how difficult sustaining a friendship can be.

I really loved reading Freya. It is by no means a small book but I wanted more. The story did not need more and I was satisfied with the story as a whole but I just loved it so much. I was bereft when it was over.

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The most enjoyable aspect of this compelling novel is the character of the eponymous heroine herself, Freya, an unconventional woman making her way in a world dominated by men. Assertive, outspoken, and unconventional, Freya strides unstoppingly through the narrative in a way that engages if it doesn’t always endear. We meet her on VE day as she celebrates the end of the war in London, shortly before her discharge form the Wrens. We follow her to university in Oxford and then on to her career in journalism, where she challenges all the norms and preconceptions of what it means to be a “lady”. Underpinning the whole story is her relationship with Nancy and its often tortured trajectory. It’s a story of ambition, friendship, love, politics, homosexuality, scandal and even immigration, and is arguably too long, with too busy a plot and with too much straying down narrative byways. But there’s an impressive sense of the time and place, charting as it does post-war society into the 1960s, and it’s great fun spotting the real-life characters (Rebecca West, Lucien Freud, Kenneth Tynan) in their fictional counterparts. All in all, I could ignore any shortcomings, because I found the novel well-written, interesting, mostly convincing, and thoroughly enjoyable.

Very long book with lots of descriptions. Starts on VE day and follows two girls who, become best friends, over the next twenty years