Book Up The Junction

Synopsis the girls rube lily and sylvie work at mccrindle s sweet factory during the week and on saturday they go up the junction in their clattering stilettos think about new frocks on h p drink tea in the cafe and talk about their boyfriends.

Book up the junction. Up the junction is a book by nell dunn which shocked the reading public when it was originally published in the early nineteen sixties due to its frank depiction of life for young women in south london at the time and the adventures they get involved in. Up the junction is a 1963 collection of short stories by nell dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of battersea and clapham junction. Nell dunn s up the junction a set of loosely linked vignettes of working class london caught a cultural mood when it was first published in 1963.

1 the book uses colloquial speech and its portrayal of petty thieving sexual encounters births deaths and back street abortion provided a view of life that was previously unrecognised by many people.