[3] Morning Break (1956), for example, centres on a pair of schoolteachers in an English industrial town and the difficulties they encounter, ranging from student vandalism to infidelity.
[8] Treasure in Heaven (1937) is about a busy single woman who, at the age of 50, realizes she has been repressing her 'natural' desires and has thus missed out on crucial elements of a full life such as marriage and children.
(published by Gollancz in 1931 to good reviews) became the centre of a minor literary furore just before it was to be republished in America by Farrar & Rinehart.
The story was set in a girls' school, and apparently Wade based some of her characters on real people, because several women brought lawsuits and won damages from Gollancz.
[10] In one case, revolving on the fact that a minor character who lost her virginity outside marriage was based on an identifiable real woman, the plaintiff won more than just monetary damages.