The Last Hope of Girls

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Synopsis

Newly installed as a live in caretaker of an Oxford Street mansion block which is being transformed into show homes, Martha Brazil can scarcely believe her luck. After years of stuffy bedsits and seedy suburban flatshares, the future seems electric with the promise of renovation and repair. Cruising her local department store by day and thrilling to the sounds of revelry that float through her window at night, it strikes her that surely an independent young person with flair and a surplus of will power ought to be able to shine in such a setting.

But Martha's splendid isolation is tainted by agonising ghosts from the past which compete for her attention. And when out of the blue a copy of her father's latest novel falls into her lap she comes to the conclusion that it's time to take herself and her eccentric, fragmented family in hand.