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a memoir of the '70s and beyond

by Michele Roberts

BiographySocial life and customsEnglish Women authorsEnglish AuthorsManners and customsLondon (england), social life and customsWomen authorsAuthors, biography

Alternative politics, libertarian socialism, experimental living, feminist communes, street theatre, radical magazine, love affairs - gay and straight,... sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll. This is a memoir of a young woman who came down from Oxford to London in 1970 determined to break free from a conventional middle-class, close-knit family. This is a story about love and friendship, about London and about a girl who tastes freedom.

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Book data: Open Library