Up The Junction: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)

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Female Sleuths: The Imogen Quy detective novels by Jill Paton Walsh are an engrossing college education Her first book, Up The Junction, a prize-winning collection of short ­stories inspired by the struggles of working class women, came out in 1963 to huge acclaim. In the same year, her husband’s seminal play about homelessness, Cathy Come Home, was published. Never have Britain's youngsters been so ready to speak out. About sex. About religion. Themselves. About their elders. About any subject under the sun. But instead of being commended for their candour they're penalised. - Penalised and exploited by the supposedly responsible adults who produce TV plays and documentaries, write books and plays. On Monday, B.B.C. TV's 24-Hours did a programme on birth control. Supposedly, it was a serious attempt to assess the dangers and advantages of birth control clinics. But was it really necessary to parade so many youngsters who were willing to go to bed with their partners before marriage? "Yes." says a B.B.C. spokesman. "We know that the new kind of morality that's always talked about actually exists." I said, “baloney!”

There is a mix of traditional and modern in the views expressed and the women are focussed on trying to get as much out of life as possible; King Charles was 'cold and brief' in 'awkward' phone call with Prince Harry after the Duke reached out to him following release of memoir Spare Leaving your beauty routine out in the cold? Three beauty experts on the skin, hair and nail tips they're giving their celebrity clients this winterThree protagonists are followed in Up the Junction, Sylvie, Ruby and Lily, all of whom work at a local sweet factory. The entirety of the book, on the surface of it, looks to be heavily involved with sexual politics, but as one reads on, the fixation upon aesthetics becomes clear. Each of the characters seems to place much emphasis upon their own appearances, interrupting even important conversations to ask if their hair looks nice, or if their new item of clothing suits them. Examples of this can be found in sentences such as this one: ‘[Pauline] was pretty in the dirty cafe; full ashtrays and dripping sauce bottles; sugar-bowls with brown clotted lumps in the white sugar’. She is not that interested in me, although she did meet my mother and father when they were alive, so she wasn’t just in a corner of my life; she was in all my life,” says Nell. Nell Dunn was a “posh bird” from Chelsea, a knight’s daughter and the maternal granddaughter of the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo. In 1959, she moved south of the river to what was then run down, working-class Battersea and wrote a series of short stories about her new life there. They were published in 1963 under the title Up The Junction. Here’s how the first story begins: Difford's performance of the song live on Platform 10 at Clapham Junction railway station was featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Lyrical Journey in September 2011. [8]

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