Blogs in January 1970

Super-Cannes 1st January 1970

Eden-Olympia is more than a mere business park. It is an expensive and intense hive, the modern “Dream Palace” of “a new elite of administrators, enarques and scientific entrepreneurs”: its aim, “to turn Provence into Europe’s silicon valley”. Paul...

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Thunder on the Right 1st January 1970

Jenny Silver’s trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian who has been like a sister to her, Jenny has...

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What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia 1st January 1970

Michele Hanson grew up an ‘oddball tomboy disappointment’ in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s – a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of...

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Perfect Strangers 1st January 1970

Just an innocent invitation… When Sophie Ellis is asked to house-sit at a luxurious Knightsbridge townhouse, it appears to be the offer of a lifetime. Drawn into the glittering circle of the home’s owner, she meets wealthy American businessman...

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The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted 1st January 1970

‘Every good love story has another love hiding within it’ Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier...

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