SILLY LILY

Growing up after a war, Lillian, or "SILLY LILY," as the other kids call her, is not allowed to mix with the other kids as her mother thinks they are "common," until one day her father falls seriously ill, and in a situation where there is no one to take care of her she is allowed to enter the homes of two other girls, and starts to learn about life. Although the book starts in childhood, it continues on into her life, first job, first boyfriend, and her difficulty in equating the romantic stuff of books with the basic, more normal facts of life. She loves, then loses for a time, a man as awkward as herself, but gets a second chance at happiness.