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Letty does seem the most interesting to me so far, mostly because she hasn't cut off contact with the modern world completely. Her living arrangements are more open than Marcia's, and she tries to keep up with fashion.

Another thing I do like about this novel is that it shows the social changes taking place in the 70s, especially regarding race relations. Letty and the other three still live in a mindset where old standards of social class define status and manners; but now there's another element, something that forces them to rethink what it means to be British. It's almost absent in Excellent Women (except for a couple of scenes: the cafeteria scene with the young Indian men, and the African participants at the anthropology paper reading), and much more prevalent here.