Romance novel set in HERTFORDSHIRE and Cricklewood
GIVEAWAY: 5 copies of Overland – a 1970 trip of a lifetime from London to Kathmandu
30th June 2024
GIVEAWAY: 5 copies of Overland by Yasmin Cordery Kahn, a 1970 trip of a lifetime from London to Kathmandu.
UK ONLY
Set in the 1970s on an overland journey from London to India, with a target destination of Kathmandu.
TripFiction says: “..It is always such a pleasure to come across a novel, one that has been flagged for us because of the strength of setting; and then to discover it has a riveting, nuanced storyline, beautifully written and told. This will be joining TF’s Hall of Fame – top reads for literary wanderlust…”
London, 1970. Fresh out of a dead-end job, Joyce answers an ad in the local paper: Kathmandu by van, leave August. Share petrol and costs. Joyce is desperate to escape life in suburbia, and aristocrat Freddie looks like he can show her a wild time.
Together with Anton, Freddie’s best friend from boarding school, they embark on the overland trail from London to Kathmandu in a beaten-up old Land Rover. But as they cross the borders into Asia, Freddie can’t outrun his family’s history, leading to devastating consequences for everyone.
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The pure innocence of everything, the simple life
The hairstyles
The amazing clothes and the glam rock era.
The 1970s was the start of the microprocessor revolution which has led to so many things that are essential in our lives today.
I loved the amazing music and roller disco parties.
I loved the start of the home consoles / pc era, with the launch of the Atari Video game console.
It was the decade I was born in! The music was fantastic and I have so many happy memories of carefree days playing outside with my friends, making perfume from rose petals, playing rounders on the field, watching Starsky & Hutch on a Friday night with my mum and sister, and so much more!
my daughters were both born in the 70s,. We lived in Germany from 1974 for 4 years and the Summer of 1976 was one long hot summer while we were there.
We married in 1969 and the 70’s were very hard for us financially but the highlight for me was giving birth to my two babies. Said babies are 49 and 51 this summer but we are so proud to call them ours and thankful they have given us 4 wonderful grandchildren to enjoy in our twilight years!
The music and fashion
the clothes
I think the music was great in the 70s. But I was only very small so all I really remember from the time is what seemed like endless summer days.
The feeling of freedom and not realising how silly the clothes weew
The music
T. REX.
It was also the decade I was born so pretty thankful for that.
The music in the 1970s
Abba
Well it would be very egotistical so say the best thing is it’s my birth decade! So I’ll go for the music.
Fond memories of that glorious summer of ’76.
the glorious colours and patterns!
the music, esp. the growth of prog rock.
The sweets. Tooty Fruties, Spanish Gold, Spangles, Black Jacks, Bazooka Joes plus so many more
Punk rock!
Abba! The food was good, too: traditional and homemade. No ultra-processed food.
Definitely the fashion and the music
Music
the clothes and music
There was More a sense of being happy.
Freedom and I loved the clothes. I was a real hippy.
The mad fashion when nobody cared because we weren’t photographing every moment of our days
no social media
the best thing was . . . no social media!!
The music, it will NEVER BE BEATEN, it will NEVER BE SURPASSED
Loved the cars, they had so much character.
Leaving school
The great music and artist’s of that era
The fashion & music!
The 70’s was an exciting reawakening for me. Leaving my childhood behind and starting my adult adventure in life. So many new experiences and much fun!
I was a kid of the 70s so loved The Wombles, Jimmy Osmond & my Kermit the Frog nightie case
Wish I could go back in time, things seemed much simpler, strawberries in season, snow at Christmas, Totp’s!, platforms, cheesecloth shirts and flares and pubs with smoking allowed and no children x
I started work in the 70’s and remember the decade for diverse events such as the Apollo 13 mission and start of the Punk movement – Let me go back please I’d be 50 years younger!!!
From Waterloo to Grease to Punk and Disco the Seventies offered something for everyone. Happy, exciting times.
My favourite decade loved glam rock and loon pants
The 1970s for me were such innocent days. I was in Secondary school and I really enjoyed these times. I was a ‘good girl’ and quite studious like most of my friends. I have very fond memories of those times
I left school, yeah and got my first job, I loved flares and bay city rollers, even tv was better then
Great music, different and more modern clothes. The latter part of the hippy era and it was a happy time although money was very short.
The music and the fashion.
I love the 70s music – who doesn’t love a bit of disco?
Music
The fashion was fabulous!
For me it has to be the music and the clothing. Some of the musicians are still around and playing today!
I loved the 70s because I visited many far away countries then. I also loved the music and the fashion – great time to be “young”!
The 1970s was before my time, but it has to be the music and the fashion! Short skirts, flared sleeves, high boots and all those patterns – groovy baby indeed.
What I loved about the 70s (although I was just a bit too young to enjoy most of it!) was the sense of adventure in young people. Imagine getting on a bus in London and a few months later, arriving in New Delhi, having travelled through so many countries!
Or Woodstock, young people flocking from across America to hear the greats!
Would love to read this, to make up for missing that bus!!
Great times and travelling in the WRNS.
The 1970s was great, the decade I met and married my husband and had my first baby. The music was great, food wasn’t policed by health gurus and we weren’t affected by global warming (although it was already suspected it might happen in the distant future). I lived in four different countries, all wonderful in their own way.
I wasn’t born until 86 but surely the best thing about the 70s has to be the Music! A lot of the Disco music just hasn’t aged and still sounds great.
I met my husband in 1973 when we set up a band. I was 15, and at 66 we have been together 51 years. We have performed on cruise ships, pubs clubs and hotels and have just retired. We have two sons and five Grandchildren and the 1970’s was the start of it all. Would love to read the book.
The music, the fashions, the freedom – and I would swear it was always sunny!
The music, the TV programmes, platform shoes and the long hot summer of 1976!
The year of my birth and memories of a happy carefree childhood with my older siblings.
Well I wasn’t born then but the clothing looked quite groovy and I do quite like flared and bell-bottom trousers – much better than skinny and slim fits!
at the very end of the 70s it was the music (which then continued through the 80s)
The music and the fashion
I adored the 70s, married at 16 to a gorgeous Maltese man, we loved the music, the fashion, & the way we could change jobs whenever we wanted. Our elder daughter was born on the 70s & at 16 left home to travel, which she did for 5 years. So cheap then if you were prepared to rough it, she cooked on a French fishing trawler, waitressed in a smart hotel & lived with a camel train crossing the desert in India, eventually losing her journal on the way home from Turkey. She would love this book!
My primary school days were blissful , and where I engaged in my love of books . I wish I could turn back time , I was so happy , always beaming and skipping . Fast forward 45 years , and I am a shadow of my primary school self x x x x