Miss Gathercole's Girls — Judy Gardiner

"The end of a dream is never the end of hoping." Cassie Marlow had one dream - to attend a Cambridge college. Left to the care of a rich uncle in Liverpool, she is forced instead to enrol at Miss Gathercole's secretarial academy - to find her own way in the modern world of the roaring Twenties. There she comes face to face with startling contrasts - poverty and luxury, trust and faithlessness, tragedy and joy. Cassie finds that in love, as in life, the wheel can come full circle.