Lives of Girls and Women

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Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she''s impatient for more.

More than she can find in the encyclopaedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances.

Just like the...