Up The Junction Book
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.
Up the junction book. A virago modern classic vmc. 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. 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.
A virago modern classic vmc by dunn nell from amazon s fiction books store. Little brown book group united kingdom 2013. 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.