Suffragette City

Kate Muir, Suffragette City (Pan/Macmillan, 1999)
This is a funny and serious novel about Albertine, the decadent woman artist. She is single, lives with her room-mates, Wanda a fashion designer and Nosmo, a gay man, but does not have any deep relationship with anyone. She meets an interesting man, but as chance encounters go, does not know where the relationship is going inspite of being fully pregnent with his baby. In the meanwhile, she is haunted by her great-great grandmother's ghost who escapes through her letters preserved by Albertine's grandmother Rose. The novel ends with the coming together of the lost lovers and Albertine making it big in the art world, both of which happens along with her giving birth.