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Author_Joan Bakewell
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Product details
- ISBN 9781844086702
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2012
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Liverpool late 1950s. This is a story of three people: a suppressed mother; a father, projectionist at the local cinema which has seen better days; and their daughter Martha. It is a time of many escapes: Nureyev defects in London; Gagarin escapes the earth's atmosphere to be the first man in space; the Beatles escape the dreariness of Liverpool to seek their fortune in Hamburg. In Britain the drab 50s are giving way to the lively 60s and the young sense it.
With shades of Billy Liar, and Absolute Beginners, this novel brilliantly captures that longing for freedom. Sixteen year old Martha is leaving home.
A prominent figure in TV and the arts in Britain, Joan Bakewell has been a broadcaster for over forty years, a print journalist for over twenty years, and has published her autobiography, The Centre of the Bed. All the Nice Girls was her first novel. She was made a Dame in 2008.
