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Frostquake

Juliet Nicolson

From Shelf: Official Indie Top 12 Non-Fiction Bestsellers (Week 2, 2022)

These were the shadows that hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts.And yet underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir, with JF Kennedy, the pill, Bob Dylan, Mary Quant and the Beatles symbols of an exuberant youthquake.

** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'This book is a must' Peter HennessyOn Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis, unemployment was on the rise, and yet, underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir.From poets to pop stars, shopkeepers to schoolchildren, and her own family's experiences, Juliet Nicolson traces the hardship of that frozen winter and the emancipation that followed. That spring, new life was unleashed, along with freedoms we take for granted today.'An absolutely mesmerising book' Antonia Fraser

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
368
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9781529111033
Published Date:
30/12/2021
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Weight:
279g
Category:
British & Irish history

RRP: £10.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781529111033


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