Quasi-orphan Netta (dead mother, father who drinks) is in need of a new crowd when she heads off to university and leaves the crumbling family nest behind. When she meets Pilah, Mel and Emily during her first term away, she discovers a whole new world of man-bashing, husband-stealing and nuclear warfare. Her studies soon fall to the wayside as she embarks on a mission to find the perfect one-night stand to live up to her new feminist principles.
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|comment= Fascinating. It just shows how fleeting the iconic things really are (I get it in space all the time when switching from British/Anglo-American to POlish/Middle Euriopean circles; but this was a bit surprisng example of a time effect: despite being a foreigner, and not here at the time, I still know about Greenham Common - I even remember that the first time I have ehard of it was actually in an Adrian Mole book...I had to look it up :-).
Possibly, Greenham Common has a pop-culture jinx on it, as I recall another utterly, terribly dreadful book with references to it, Ben Elton's "Blast from the Past".