Shirley Conran wrote popular fiction about female friendship, sex, money and social mobility, most famously in the large-scale novel Lace. That book follows four women who meet as schoolgirls and remain connected through adulthood until a younger woman confronts them with a question about her parentage; the story moves through boarding school, careers, marriages and international settings. Lace II continues parts of the same story, while Savages strands a group of wealthy women in a dangerous environment after an attack on a luxury resort and turns social rivalry into survival fiction. Conran also wrote practical non-fiction about household organisation and personal finances. Her novels are long, fast-moving and plot-heavy, with glamour, secrets and reversals driving the reading experience. Lace is the defining entry point for her 1980s-style commercial fiction, while Savages replaces the family-secret structure with a survival plot. Read more Less
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