Frostquake by Juliet Nicolson
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.
Nicolson makes social history feel like reading the best and most gripping novelA beautiful, wholly original book -- India Knight
A brilliant concept transformed into a brilliant and revelatory book. Completely fascinating and engrossing -- William Boyd
As gripping as any thriller, Frostquake is the story of a national trauma that came out of nowhere and changed us forever. Brilliantly written and almost eerily relevant to our current troubles -- Tony Parsons
An engagingly written mixture of social history and memoir -- Trevor Phillips * Sunday Times *
Fascinating, quirky and evocative . . . Nicolson takes us right back to that muffled, snowbound world -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail *
A brilliant concept transformed into a brilliant and revelatory book. Completely fascinating and engrossing -- William Boyd
As gripping as any thriller, Frostquake is the story of a national trauma that came out of nowhere and changed us forever. Brilliantly written and almost eerily relevant to our current troubles -- Tony Parsons
An engagingly written mixture of social history and memoir -- Trevor Phillips * Sunday Times *
Fascinating, quirky and evocative . . . Nicolson takes us right back to that muffled, snowbound world -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail *
Juliet Nicolson is the bestselling author of three works of social history, The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911; The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War; and Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country; as well as a family memoir, A House Full of Daughters. She is a mother and a grandmother and lives with her husband in East Sussex.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529111033 |
| ISBN 10 | 152911103X |
| Title | Frostquake |
| Author | Juliet Nicolson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-12-30 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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