The Friendly Young LadiesBy: Mary Renault Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, nave, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the stifling environment of her parents home in Cornwall to seek out her sister, Leo, who had run away nine years earlier. She finds Leo sharing a houseboat, and a bed, with the beautiful, fair haired Helen. While Elsies arrival seems innocent enough, it is the first of a series of events that will