Enemies to lovers romance set around PARIS and LONDON
Peacock on the Moon
Location(s): Huddersfield
Genre(s): Historical, Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): 1970s
Nicola Briggs grew up in a beautiful Georgian house in Huddersfield, which she loved, but she didn’t realise how much until her parents sent her away to a prestigious boarding school at eleven. From then on, the idea of ‘home’ became a distant dream, a place she could only enjoy for sixteen weeks a year.
This coming-of-age memoir is a moving but powerful portrait of family life, dominated by a charismatic but bigoted and self-destructive solicitor whose anti-immigration rhetoric knew no bounds.
Set in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, this story exposes the suffocating middle-class existence of one family, revealing the deep-seated racism and status wars of the 1960s and 1970s that Nicola felt pressured to accept. But would she?
This is not a nostalgic look back at the past but a story of reckoning, told with humour, clarity and deep personal insight. It is part of the social history of a town at the cusp of globalisation.
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