Blogs in January 1970

Denial – The Varcolac Journals 1st January 1970

“I hate my life! After careful consideration and contemplation involving far too much alcohol I am resigned to the fact that I hate my life. I am a single thirty-one year old woman, living alone in my two bed...

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The Death of Mr Love 1st January 1970

The central tenet is based on a murder case in 1950s Bombay, with tremendous descriptions of the Bombay underworld, its backstreets and community politics, together with scenes of rural India. The story of Bhalu as he remembers his idyllic...

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Delicious 1st January 1970

Three generations and the kitchen that binds them. Young Maria, content in her Mother’s kitchen, nevertheless seeks excitement and heads off to the city lights, only to return pregnant. Chiara, her daughter and Maria head off to England in...

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The Buddha of Suburbia 1st January 1970

Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is ‘the buddha of...

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Imagined London 1st January 1970

Anna Quindlen has visited London on numerous occasions and has written this account of London, based on her own literary map, tracing the footsteps of her favourite literary characters – where, for example, the bright young things of Evelyn...

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