My Lovely Adele by Adrian Bennett

'The 'straight' world had many names for the kind of girl she was, but Norma called her my lovely Adele'

'the world had names for Norma, too---At school the girls had called her 'Abnormal Norma', At Kemper's, the tottering giant of a department store that her efficiency and imagination had revitalized, they called her 'Miss Houston', but at home in the little Village apartment that they shared, Adele called her, 'My Love.'

Novel about a homosexual relationship between two women