Short stories – almost vignettes – of the lives of working-class young women in Battersea and Clapham Junction, first published in 1963, at the same time as Dunn’s husband, Jeremy Sandford, wrote Cathy Come Home. Dunn’s frank, pared-back style is gutsy and uninhibited, capturing the tension between buoyant social encounter and harsh urban life. Her portraits unforgettable.