Blogs in January 1970

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees 1st January 1970

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees gives you an insight into the workings and atmosphere of small town France against a background of gender, sexual, racial and religious prejudice. The story unfolds, told by Danielle a single, downtrodden , thirty...

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Murder in the Midi 1st January 1970

Isabelle doesn’t expect a summer job in the south of France to turn into a nightmare. But even before she encounters the mysterious Nathan Freelander at the wheel of a boat on the Canal du Midi, she is already...

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A Year in Provence 1st January 1970

Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in...

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The Frozen Dead 1st January 1970

The first victim is a horse: its headless body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a secure asylum for the...

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Shadows of Conflict 1st January 1970

When Katie, redundant from her media job, accepts Mattie’s offer to take over her shop, A Good Yarn, in Dartmouth, she expects her life to be busy and unexciting. But with an American film crew in town intent on...

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