Frostquake How the frozen winter of 1962 changed Britain forever
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Juliet Nicolson is the bestselling author of three works of social 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 is a mother and a grandmother and 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
An entertaining panorama of life in Britain during the original "beast from the east" . . . [Nicolson's] striking hypothesis . . . explores the impending social revolution from many angles . . . out of catastrophe can come change for good: a social revolution in 1963; perhaps an environmental awakening in 2021
- Richard Morrison, The Times BOOK OF THE WEEK
Juliet Nicolson's new book is a treasure trove... beautifully written. Nicolson uses the imagery of freeze and thaw as a metaphor for the new Britain that was being born, a conceit as elegant in its execution in its conception
- Alwyn Turner, BBC History Magazine
Juliet Nicolson's timely study of that pivotal winter in British history has so many parallels with today that it occasionally sends a shiver down your spine . . . Her own memories of the turbulent months before and after that day are the thread that hold this beautifully stitched patchwork of stories together . . . convincing, poetic and often very touching
- Marcus Field, Evening Standard
In this lively chronicle Juliet Nicolson, who was eight years old at the time, argues that the winter of 1962-63 marked a turning point in society, with Britain's social conventions beginning to burst apart at the seams. With cameos from Joanna Lumley and Harold Evans, and a nod to imminent Beatlemania, Nicolson buoyantly contends that out of devastation good can come
New Statesman
Nicolson aims to do much more than present a charming word picture of the freakish winter of 1962-63 . . . where <i>Frostquake</i> triumphs is as a metaphor -- a network of images that describes how Britain was beginning to unfreeze from the 50s
- Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
** 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.