What the grown-ups were doing
Subtitle: an odyssey through 1950s suburbia
By: Michele Hanson
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444813395
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Nineteen fifties; Large type books; Social life and customs; Social conditions; Années cinquante (Vingtième siècle); Livres en gros caractères; Conditions sociales; Large print books; Manners and customs
Description: Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip during the 1950s - a Metroland of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of anxieties and suspected salacious goings-on. Was Pamela's mother really having an affair with the man from the carpet shop? Did chatterbox Blanche Walmesley harbour unspeakable desires for Michele's sulky dad? An atmosphere of intense rivalry and lively gossip permeated the domestic idyll. And with glamorous, scheming Auntie Celia swanning around in silk, Michele had a lot to contend with.