Название: Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time
Автор: Juliet Gardiner
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
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For Rudi and Sammy
Contents
A young woman wearing a navy-blue duffel coat and bottle-green stockings stood shivering in the vaulted booking hall of Bristol Temple Meads station looking uncertainly around her. It was 1 January 1960 and the woman was me. I was sixteen years old, and, using the money I had earned from delivering letters for the Post Office during the holidays (£8 5s.) and writing ‘amusing’ anecdotes to the letters page of Woman’s Realm, plus a Christmas present of a £2 postal order, I had run away from home.
It was the start of a decade that was to be momentous in changing Britain’s history, politically, economically, socially and culturally. Although of course I could not have foreseen that, nevertheless it seemed a suitably significant date on which to start a new life; to leave behind the pebble-dashed house in the home counties, СКАЧАТЬ