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Nell Dunn

    This English author is celebrated for her sharp insights into working-class life. Her works, often set against vibrant urban backdrops, are characterized by raw realism and authentic language. She masterfully captures the everyday struggles, desires, and relationships of ordinary people. Her narratives offer a candid and memorable reading experience.

    Leben in Battersea
    Tot gauw
    Talking to women
    Up The Junction
    Poor Cow
    The Muse
    • The Muse

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      The Muse is the story of a female friendship, one that shaped both author and subject over decades.

      The Muse2020
      3.4
    • Talking to women

      • 170 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Dunn transcribes nine informal interviews she recorded with young women she happened to be near and around in the year 1964. They are friends across the class system, from factory worker Kathy to socialite Suna, with a particular eye to women marking themselves out creatively and against the odds. Dunn describes these women as sharing more than a common time and age; they've "severed themselves from some of the conventional forms of living and thinking."

      Talking to women2018
      3.7
    • Poor Cow

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Nell Dunn's 1967 novel which was made into a film directed by Ken Loach

      Poor Cow2013
      3.5
    • Up The Junction

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Published in 1963 Up the Junction won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, was adapted into a film and was the inspiration for the song of the same name

      Up The Junction2013
      3.4
    • Twee jonge mensen ontmoeten elkaar in een boekhandel: een arme gymnasiast en een kostschoolmeisje. Het verschil tussen hun culturele achtergronden, en het wederzijdse onvermogen misverstanden als betrekkelijk te zien, staan een volmaakte relatie in de weg. Hun verbondenheid uit zich in vijftig jaar brieven, kaarten en vluchtige ontmoetingen. De melancholie van het onvervulde overheerst tenslotte en laat alleen nog plaats voor het kleinste verlangen: elkaar nog eenmaal ontmoeten, zonder verwachtingen.

      Tot gauw1972