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A vibrant story of friendship, first experience and a summer that couldn't last foreverFor us it all began in the summer of '76, the year the sun scorched the grass the colour of sand and no-one could sprinkle their lawns or take a bath, and the year I could no longer run around without my top on. Meet Lizzie and Kim as they grow from small-town adolescents to women on the hedonistic stage of London in the early eighties. There they join Kim's older sister, Vonnie, an untameable force of nature who is everything they'd like to be. Or is she? Told with an infectious energy, My Vintage Summer is for those who remember dressing up for their first night out, the first song they danced to with their best friend, their first love - and their first life-altering mistake. It's a story of what happens when life doesn't turn out as you had expected. No library descriptions found. |
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My Vintage Summer uses three stages of Elizabeth's life to give a vivid, kaleidoscopic view of England in the early 1980s, complete with spiky, bleached hair, wild clothing, and punk music.
More than that, it explores self-discovery, independence, wrong decisions, and realizing your childhood idol's imperfections. It explores the gritty aspect of the decade, rather than viewing it through rose-coloured glasses.
The juxtaposition of the past Lizzie and Liza Doo with the present-day Beth creates an air of nostalgia without becoming sappy and overly sentimental. (