Blogs in January 1970

Island Wife 1st January 1970

ISLAND WIFE tells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her off into an adventure, a marriage of forty years, and a life on a remote Hebridean island. Along the way she bears...

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Two Feet, Four Paws 1st January 1970

Take one headstrong dog and a feisty young woman, and send them off on a walk for the equivalent distance of London to Delhi. Tess the dog flirts outrageously with good-looking farmers and charms unsuspecting toddlers into parting with...

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The Chocolate Girls 1st January 1970

Three very different women work together at Cadbury’s Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work – and a child called David. Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at...

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1977 (The Red Riding Quartet) 1st January 1970

Fiction set in Yorkshire. If you thought fiction couldn’t get darker than David Peace’s extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the ‘Red Riding Quartet’, is one long nightmare. Its heroes...

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The Fortnight in September 1st January 1970

Domestic life at 22 Corunna Road in Dulwich, is exchanged for a train journey via Clapham Junction to the south coast,two weeks living in lodgings and going to the beach every day. This is the story of one family’s...

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