Blogs in January 1970

The Good Dream 1st January 1970

1950 Tennessee, a time and place that straddles the past and present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town (though she’s only in her early thirties) and she takes that label with good humour and a...

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Lone Star Noir 1st January 1970

One can drive around Texas for a long time and never meet J.R. Ewing or Woodrow McCall. The real Texas hides out in towns and cities like those that readers will find in these stories. In that very Texan...

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Elvis and the Grateful Dead 1st January 1970

This is Tupelo, Mississippi, the town where Elvis grew up. Each year the people have a Best Elvis Competition that brings in thousands of his fans to the town. The hairdresser Callie Valentine Jones has the real “Elvis”, the...

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Never Coming Home 1st January 1970

All she has left is hope. When Kaz Elmore is told her five-year-old daughter Jamie has died in a car crash, she struggles to accept that she’ll never see her little girl again. Then a stranger comes into her...

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You are the love of my life 1st January 1970

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter is a children’s book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in Washington in the...

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