Blogs in January 1970

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s 1st January 1970

The East End in the 1950s, worth describes the hardships and life of a midwife, the real life situations and captures that era to perfection.

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Comfort and Joy 1st January 1970

It’s two days before Christmas and wife and mother of two, Clara Dunphy, has finally finished her last-minute shopping on Oxford Street. On a whim she decides to treat herself to a champagne cocktail at the Connaught hotel, where...

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Offshore 1st January 1970

Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald illuminates the lives of “creatures neither of firm land nor water”–a group of barge-dwellers in London’s Battersea Reach, circa...

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An Uncertain Place 1st January 1970

This is the sixth novel featuring Commissaire Adamsberg that has been translated into English. It starts in London, at Highgate Cemetery where Adamsberg,along with two colleagues, is attending a conference.They chance upon a pile of shoes with severed feet...

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The Duke of Shadows 1st January 1970

The setting for the first half of the book is India during the Great Uprising of 1857. Emma is the victim of a tragic shipwreck and she is the lone survivor, on her way to meet her future husband....

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