Blogs in January 1970

Eden’s Garden 1st January 1970

2011 Carys agrees, with mixed feelings, to look after her mother after a fall. This decision unsettles everything – her job, her plans, her relationship with Jack. Once home she is drawn back into village life, into her family history...

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So Many Ways to Begin 1st January 1970

The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.

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The Book of Summers 1st January 1970

Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it’s stuffed with photographs and mementos complied...

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Mr Rosenbulm’s List 1st January 1970

Jack and Sadie Rosenblum come to England from Germany in the 1930s. He wants to integrate and follows the advice in the leaflet he receives on arrival. Sadie, however, does not want to integrate and misses her life in...

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Atonement 1st January 1970

13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama The Trials of Arabella to welcome home her elder, idolised brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the...

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