She's Leaving Home - Couverture souple

Bakewell, Joan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844086704 ISBN 13 : 9781844086702

Editeur : Virago, 2012

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

The author's astute observation underpins her clever, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant evocation of a coming of age (Elizabeth Buchan Sunday Times)

Bakewell is at her best evoking the excitement of the early days of television. Her most effective portraits are those of the Granada Studios. Bakewell vividly evokes the modernity of the building in Manchester, the vibrant atmosphere and the mingling of staff in the canteen ... Bakewell's attention to detail is impeccable... [An] affectionate conjuring of an era gone by (Samira Shackle New Statesman)

Plenty of wry humour. Many of Joan Bakewell's observations and anecdotes also convey the distinct impression of personal experience - particularly once timid Martha reaches Liverpool, where she finds herself surprisingly at home among her new bohemian friends, her horizons broadened by such heady delights as poetry readings, CND protests, sex and Earl Grey tea (Amber Pearson Daily Mail)

An accomplished writer of fiction on the evidence of this, her second novel ... Bakewell conjures up Liverpool and a dreary nearby town in the early Sixties, sensitively portraying through her characterisation an era on the cusp between post-war privation and Sixties hedonism ... Bakewell does capture both the intense self-absorption of the young and the disappointments of middle age in what is a very readable and perceptive novel (Vanessa Berridge Daily Express)

'The author's astute observation underpins her clever, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant evocation of a coming of age' (Elizabeth Buchan Sunday Times)

'Bakewell is at her best evoking the excitement of the early days of television. Her most effective portraits are those of the Granada Studios. Bakewell vividly evokes the modernity of the building in Manchester, the vibrant atmosphere and the mingling of staff in the canteen . . . Bakewell's attention to detail is impeccable . . . [An] affectionate conjuring of an era gone by' (Samira Shackle New Statesman)

'Plenty of wry humour. Many of Joan Bakewell's observations and anecdotes also convey the distinct impression of personal experience - particularly once timid Martha reaches Liverpool, where she finds herself surprisingly at home among her new bohemian friends, her horizons broadened by such heady delights as poetry readings, CND protests, sex and Earl Grey tea' (Amber Pearson Daily Mail)

An accomplished writer of fiction on the evidence of this, her second novel . . . Bakewell conjures up Liverpool and a dreary nearby town in the early Sixties, sensitively portraying through her characterisation an era on the cusp between post-war privation and Sixties hedonism . . . Bakewell does capture both the intense self-absorption of the young and the disappointments of middle age in what is a very readable and perceptive novel (Vanessa Berridge Daily Express)

Quatrième de couverture

Years later, when Martha is asked how the sixties got going, she remembers this moment, waiting in the foyer. The cheerful bulk of Josie fitting tightly inside the box office booth; Frankie, all quiffed black hair, doling out viciously bright sweets . . . But the times they are a-changing. And while her father, the projectionist at the Grande cinema, cloaks himself in Hollywood fantasies, and her mother mourns her lost youth, Martha is determined that she will not waste herself on dreams. She has her own life to live. Martha is leaving home.

Brilliantly capturing the longing for freedom and change, She's Leaving Home is about the madness, the intensity and the passion that made the sixties an iconic decade.

'Plenty of wry humour. . . once Martha reaches Liverpool, she finds her horizons broadened by such heady delights as poetry readings, CND protests, sex and Earl Grey tea' Amber Pearson, Daily Mail

'Bakewell conjures up Liverpool in the early Sixties, sensitively portraying an era on the cusp between post-war privation and Sixties hedonism . . captures both the intense self-absorption of the young and the disappointments of middle age . . . very readable and perceptive' Vanessa Berridge, Daily Express

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844086704
• ISBN 13: 9781844086702
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336