Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
Was there a movie made of this recently? Why was it in my consciousness? It
was full of vaguely sexy events, and the female characters were unhappy for
a whole varied array of reasons, but I can't actually say it was good. (I do
think it was better than the last modern 'shopping-and-sex' novel I read,
mostly because it had less shopping.)
Things I didn't expect: '40s good girl was much more aware of sexual norms
and behaviors than I thought she would be, although for somewhat clinical
A-normal-women-would reasons.
So wrote clew in
Fiction (20th c.).