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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Oliver Twist 1st January 1970

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens’s tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the...

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The Light of the Day 1st January 1970

Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband’s affair. The visits – and the days between – lead George back into Sarah’s past...

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