Secret Diary of a 1970s Secretary

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London, 1971. A nineteen-year-old secretary is perched in a BBC office high above Portland Place. She keeps a diary, in which she describes her life at work and at home, living between a girls'' hostel in Victoria and her parents'' house in Surrey. When she stumbles into a secret relationship with a man much older than herself, her conservative upbringing leaves her unprepared for the bitter-sweet nature of an extraordinary first love affair. Set against a backdrop of miniskirts, the IRA, T. Rex, decimalization, The Female Eunuch, Edward Heath and Morecambe and Wise, Sarah Shaw''s year-long diary contrasts the humdrum of the day-to-day in the early 1970s and the sexual awakening of an innocent young woman. Honest, funny and perceptive, Portland Place is an evocative journey back to the seventies, a decade not long gone, but often a million miles away. ''A curious, candid chronicler . . . and it''s oddly soothing to read about the drabness of everyday life at a moment when the psychedelic Sixties had faded and

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London, 1971. A nineteen-year-old secretary is perched in a BBC office high above Portland Place. She keeps a diary, in which she describes her life at work and at home, living between a girls' hostel in Victoria and her parents' house in Surrey. When she stumbles into a secret relationship with a man much older than herself, her conservative upbringing leaves her unprepared for the bitter-sweet nature of an extraordinary first love affair. Set against a backdrop of miniskirts, the IRA, T. Rex, decimalization, The Female Eunuch, Edward Heath and Morecambe and Wise, Sarah Shaw's year-long diary contrasts the humdrum of the day-to-day in the early 1970s and the sexual awakening of an innocent young woman. Honest, funny and perceptive, Portland Place is an evocative journey back to the seventies, a decade not long gone, but often a million miles away. 'A curious, candid chronicler . . . and it's oddly soothing to read about the drabness of everyday life at a moment when the psychedelic Sixties had faded and the flashy Eighties were still a decade away' Mail on Sunday 'Entertaining story . . . a constant delight' Belfast Telegraph

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Anul publicarii	2017
ISBN	9781472124692
Format coperta	Brosata
Numar pagini	304
Limba	Englezã
Domeniul	Biography & Autobiography
Autor	Sarah Shaw
De aceeasi editura	Little, Brown
CM	91223
DS	D/3#MEGA/3
Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781472124692
Dimensiuni	Height: 7.75 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.53792791928 Pounds, Width: 0.75 Inches