The Pepsi Cola Addict

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A powerful and moving novel from 1921, about the lives and choices of single women, by Marjorie Grant, a Canadian novelist and reviewer, and a close friend of Rose Macaulay. ‘Theoretically ― in an ideal society ― every woman had a right to a child. Aunt Minnie was profoundly shaken. Trade Paperback. The legendary lost novel in which fourteen-year-old Preston Wildey-King must choose between his all-consuming passion for Pepsi Cola and his love for schoolmate Peggy. But actually one’s own unmarried niece in producing an illegitimate baby was bringing the most obvious form of shame and disgrace upon everyone concerned. ’ The latchkey ladies are the women who live alone or in shared rooms in London at the end of the First World War, determined to use their new freedoms, and treading a fine line between independence and disaster.

• Then she meets Philip Dampier, a married man whose plays she admires.
• Petunia Garry, a beautiful teenage chorus girl with no background and dubious morals, is swept up by the idealistic Robert Wentworth, who is determined to mould her into what he wants his wife to be.
• Gertrude Denby, an Admiral’s daughter and an endlessly patient companion to an irritating employer, is so very tired of living out her life in hired rooms.
• Anne Carey is drifting between jobs, bored of her fiancé, and longing for something to give her life meaning.
• Maquita Gilroy is a Government clerk with a lively sense of self-preservation.