Frostquake How the frozen winter of 1962 changed Britain forever
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Juliet Nicolson is the bestselling author of three works of history, The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War; The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911; 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 lives with her husband in East Sussex.Nicolson makes social history feel like reading the best and most gripping novel. A 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, <i>Frostquake </i>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
** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **
'This book is a must' Peter Hennessy
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.
The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis, unemployment was on the rise, and yet, underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir.
From poets to pop stars, shopkeepers to schoolchildren, and her own family's experiences, Juliet Nicolson traces the hardship of that frozen winter and the emancipation that followed. That spring, new life was unleashed, along with freedoms we take for granted today.
'An absolutely mesmerising book' Antonia Fraser
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.