Fanny's Flight

"The setting for this story is post-war Germany of the 1950s. After graduating from a convent business boarding school, Stephanie wants to work in her father's business. Her mother has other ideas, though, and Fanny ends up being a housemaid for her mother and a nursemaid for younger siblings. She has neither rights nor privileges, and desperately looks for a way out of her predicament. She meets Leon at a dance course and begins to live a little, but again, her mother prevents her from escaping to better and happier times and places. Fanny has a lot to learn before she is able to take life into her own hands."--Publisher's description.