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The Mug Trilogy #1
A Slice of the Seventies
Alternate Cover Edition for 9781519275806
This first book in the loosely autobiographical Mug Trilogy tells the story of Jersey-born Mug, a troubled girl from a recently broken home. It covers her experiences as a gullible teenager at the Isle of Wight Music Festival in 1970, the year she follows a guru.
A Slice of the Seventies documents Mug's tumultuous time as a graphic design student in Coventry, tracks her relationship with fellow student, David, plus the dramatic events that lead on from their graduation.
This first book in the loosely autobiographical Mug Trilogy tells the story of Jersey-born Mug, a troubled girl from a recently broken home. It covers her experiences as a gullible teenager at the Isle of Wight Music Festival in 1970, the year she follows a guru.
A Slice of the Seventies documents Mug's tumultuous time as a graphic design student in Coventry, tracks her relationship with fellow student, David, plus the dramatic events that lead on from their graduation.
244 pages, Paperback
First published July 23, 2015
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About the author
Joy Mutter
32 books145 followersAuthor of Random Bullets, 4 books in The Hostile series, Her Demonic Angel, Living with Postcards, Potholes and Magic Carpets, The Mug Trilogy, The Trouble with Liam, The Trouble with Trouble, Trouble in Cornwall, Troubled, Nuru and his Crows, The Storms of Padstow, Punishing the Innocent, The Brothers Grimshaw, A Sunny Day in Oldham, Friends in Need, Chasing her Shadow, and Caravan of Nightmares.
Joy Mutter started writing books in 2007 but waited until 2015 to publish six of them on Amazon. More books soon followed. All her books are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. Nine books also have audiobook versions on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
Joy was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands and lived there for 18 years. After gaining a Graphic Design Degree at Coventry University, she lived and worked in Kent as a professional graphic designer for 20 years. She moved from Kent to Oldham in 2012 and has been writing, designing, and publishing her books full-time ever since.
Her first 3 books are third-person autobiographies and form The Mug Trilogy. Books in this series are A Slice of the Seventies, The Lying Scotsman, and Straws.
Potholes and Magic Carpets is a contemporary character-led novel.
Living with Postcards is her first non-fiction book.
Random Bullets is a psychological thriller with a paranormal twist.
Her Demonic Angel was published in early 2016 in Kindle, paperback, and audiobook. It contains fourteen of Joy Mutter's short stories written in various genres.
In 2016-2017, Joy published The Hostile Series of unusual paranormal crime thrillers. Books in the series are The Hostile, Holiday for The Hostile, The Hostile Game, Confronting The Hostile, and The Hostile Series Box Set. Each book in The Hostile series is available in Kindle, paperback, and audiobook editions.
The Trouble with Liam, a psychological thriller was published in 2018. Between 2019 and 2020, she published 3 erotic thrillers; The Trouble With Trouble, Trouble In Cornwall, and Troubled.
In 2021, Joy published Nuru And His Crows, a dark erotic thriller. Her first novella, The Brothers Grimshaw, was published in 2022 along with A Sunny Day in Oldham. In March 2023, she published her 20th book, The Storms of Padstow, book 2 of the Nuru and his Crows series. Punishing the Innocent, book 3 of the series soon followed.
She then wrote a third-person memoir called The Brothers Grimshaw, and a novel called Friends in Need.
In 2025, she published a thriller called Chasing her Shadow and her second collection of short stories called Caravan of Nightmares.
Joy is currently writing her third collection of short stories.
Joy Mutter started writing books in 2007 but waited until 2015 to publish six of them on Amazon. More books soon followed. All her books are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. Nine books also have audiobook versions on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
Joy was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands and lived there for 18 years. After gaining a Graphic Design Degree at Coventry University, she lived and worked in Kent as a professional graphic designer for 20 years. She moved from Kent to Oldham in 2012 and has been writing, designing, and publishing her books full-time ever since.
Her first 3 books are third-person autobiographies and form The Mug Trilogy. Books in this series are A Slice of the Seventies, The Lying Scotsman, and Straws.
Potholes and Magic Carpets is a contemporary character-led novel.
Living with Postcards is her first non-fiction book.
Random Bullets is a psychological thriller with a paranormal twist.
Her Demonic Angel was published in early 2016 in Kindle, paperback, and audiobook. It contains fourteen of Joy Mutter's short stories written in various genres.
In 2016-2017, Joy published The Hostile Series of unusual paranormal crime thrillers. Books in the series are The Hostile, Holiday for The Hostile, The Hostile Game, Confronting The Hostile, and The Hostile Series Box Set. Each book in The Hostile series is available in Kindle, paperback, and audiobook editions.
The Trouble with Liam, a psychological thriller was published in 2018. Between 2019 and 2020, she published 3 erotic thrillers; The Trouble With Trouble, Trouble In Cornwall, and Troubled.
In 2021, Joy published Nuru And His Crows, a dark erotic thriller. Her first novella, The Brothers Grimshaw, was published in 2022 along with A Sunny Day in Oldham. In March 2023, she published her 20th book, The Storms of Padstow, book 2 of the Nuru and his Crows series. Punishing the Innocent, book 3 of the series soon followed.
She then wrote a third-person memoir called The Brothers Grimshaw, and a novel called Friends in Need.
In 2025, she published a thriller called Chasing her Shadow and her second collection of short stories called Caravan of Nightmares.
Joy is currently writing her third collection of short stories.
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June 10, 2018
Although the author is from a different country than me, I recognize the decade this story is set in and loved that. The seventies were an unusual time and the author has captured them in this semi-auto-biographical story. Mug is a young woman just trying to make it through life. The author has written a tale that takes in the life style of the time and readers get to tag along through all the craziness and wonderful days that came with that time.
September 19, 2016
A good insight to student life in the seventies if it's true that this is a partly true story then this authoress has had plenty of trials and tribulations in her life it's a good read and I look forward to reading the other two books in this series
October 3, 2021
( Format : Audiobook )
"Purple Haze all around."
Raped on her 14th birthday, and thrown out of her school because of it, living in Jersey (England)with her mother and little sister in one half of their house, the other part containing her brother, abusive father and his new girlfriend, and without friends, Mug meets two girls two years older than herself and her life, and the book, begins. Together they hitch to the Isle of Wight Festival of 1970, where The Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and Leonard Cohen, amongst several other big name groups, were appearing and she takes her first trip. The story then follows Mugs through Coventry - art college, cancer, cigarettes, and cider - to finish with her about to look for a job.
This is a simply written and very accessible book, an interesting peek into a slice of life in the England of fifth years ago, a life when rock festivals were shiny and new, before mobile phones, or even landlines in many homes so the usual way of communication over distance was a letter of a call placed in the red telephone box, like that used by Mug to call her boyfriend, which was next to the fish and chip shop, and 'smelled of urine with the calling cards of local bookers lending it a seedy air'. not too many cars, either, and hitching lifts was still easy. Hard to imagine it now.The
Narration was by Tracy Norman and her voice was a good choice for Mug, her reading clear and well paced, but lacked a certain animation at times which lessened the feeling of character. Some of the voices of others were given gentle accents to distinguish them but essentially there was very little attempt to give individual voice to the various protagonists, male or female, although this did not adversely affect understanding
My thanks to the rights holder of A Slice of the Seventies, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of the book via Audiobook Boom. I am biased in my enjoyment of this book as, like Mug, I saw Hendrix at the Isle of Wight festival just weeks before his death. And it jogged pleasant memories, plus some not so pleasant. However, although limited, it is an insight into a time very different from today, yet people don't change. Recommended to those, like myself have a nostalgic remembrances of the time and for all younger adults who would like a small experience of lol cultural life at that time. I look forward to the next book in this series.
"Purple Haze all around."
Raped on her 14th birthday, and thrown out of her school because of it, living in Jersey (England)with her mother and little sister in one half of their house, the other part containing her brother, abusive father and his new girlfriend, and without friends, Mug meets two girls two years older than herself and her life, and the book, begins. Together they hitch to the Isle of Wight Festival of 1970, where The Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and Leonard Cohen, amongst several other big name groups, were appearing and she takes her first trip. The story then follows Mugs through Coventry - art college, cancer, cigarettes, and cider - to finish with her about to look for a job.
This is a simply written and very accessible book, an interesting peek into a slice of life in the England of fifth years ago, a life when rock festivals were shiny and new, before mobile phones, or even landlines in many homes so the usual way of communication over distance was a letter of a call placed in the red telephone box, like that used by Mug to call her boyfriend, which was next to the fish and chip shop, and 'smelled of urine with the calling cards of local bookers lending it a seedy air'. not too many cars, either, and hitching lifts was still easy. Hard to imagine it now.The
Narration was by Tracy Norman and her voice was a good choice for Mug, her reading clear and well paced, but lacked a certain animation at times which lessened the feeling of character. Some of the voices of others were given gentle accents to distinguish them but essentially there was very little attempt to give individual voice to the various protagonists, male or female, although this did not adversely affect understanding
My thanks to the rights holder of A Slice of the Seventies, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of the book via Audiobook Boom. I am biased in my enjoyment of this book as, like Mug, I saw Hendrix at the Isle of Wight festival just weeks before his death. And it jogged pleasant memories, plus some not so pleasant. However, although limited, it is an insight into a time very different from today, yet people don't change. Recommended to those, like myself have a nostalgic remembrances of the time and for all younger adults who would like a small experience of lol cultural life at that time. I look forward to the next book in this series.
January 29, 2018
A thoroughly delightful trip back to Britain in the 1970s. This story follows Mug, a young Jersey girl (the British Island, not the American east coast) through her adventures as a college student, beginning with a trip to the famous rock festival on the Isle of Wight and ending with her finishing the last year of her degree program in graphic arts.
For those of us who actually lived that decade, it's a magical, mystery tour of the past. For those too young to actually remember, it's a thoroughly enjoyable venture into social history. Music, eastern mysticism, drugs, free love and the stresses of college life all receive a look through eyes of the charming though sometimes naive Mug and her collection of friends.
Tracy Norman's narrative style perfectly compliments this well written story.
Well worth the read.
For those of us who actually lived that decade, it's a magical, mystery tour of the past. For those too young to actually remember, it's a thoroughly enjoyable venture into social history. Music, eastern mysticism, drugs, free love and the stresses of college life all receive a look through eyes of the charming though sometimes naive Mug and her collection of friends.
Tracy Norman's narrative style perfectly compliments this well written story.
Well worth the read.
April 11, 2018
Awesome book!I loved the memories of an earlier time.The descriptions of people and events were spot on.A story I would love to hear more of.Tracey Norman was a terrific narrator.“I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.”
March 18, 2019
Absolutely loved it! This story really was a true slice of the seventies!
April 7, 2017
A thoroughly gripping read – it will make you boogy. Anyone old enough, young enough, or hip enough to have known what ‘boogy’ meant ‘back in the day’ had a book inside them that could or should have been written. This book definitely had to be written. ‘Back in the day’ was 1967 to 1970 or at a wider reckoning 1965 to 1972 – and Joy Mutter’s memoirs begin when that Surreal psychedelic epoch had erupted into mainstream life in Britain. She becomes one of the self-chosen few who saw and heard Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight in 1970 and form the she hits Art School – the ‘Hogwarts of Hippie’. She discovers Eastern spirituality and runs the gamut of the colour of the times. Joy Mutter neither glamorises nor pedestrianises the times. She is disarmingly honest and direct in her portrayal of herself and others: yet has such a light touch, that her romance which begins with rescuing her future partner from the noose of his theatrical mock suicide passes as part of the general flow of weirdness. What else would one expect at that time? I have studied and written about this period of British cultural history – and find this book completely delightful. Now you don’t need Dr Who’s TARDIS – you have ‘A Slice of the 70s’.
October 21, 2024
As I read A Slice of the Seventies by Joy Mutter I found myself walking down Memory lane but on the other side of the ocean. I was able to recall rock concerts people by "kids" who like me were liberated from under a parental wing and off to school and grew up through trial and a lot of error, fell in and out of love and forged a future in the rockin' and partyin' 70's
Mug is an emancipated minor and later a student experiencing all the crazy of the time. just trying to make it through life. The author has written a tale that takes in the life style of the time and readers get to tag along through all the craziness and wonderful days that came with that time.
October 12, 2021
"Purple Haze all around."
Raped on her 14th birthday, and thrown out of her school because of it, living in Jersey (England)with her mother and little sister in one half of their house, the other part containing her brother, abusive father and his new girlfriend, and without friends, Mug meets two girls two years older than herself and her life, and the book, begins. Together they hitch to the Isle of Wight Festival of 1970, where The Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and Leonard Cohen, amongst several other big name groups, were appearing and she takes her first trip. The story then follows Mugs through Coventry - art college, cancer, cigarettes, and cider - to finish with her about to look for a job.
This is a simply written and very accessible book, an interesting peek into a slice of life in the England of fifth years ago, a life when rock festivals were shiny and new, before mobile phones, or even landlines in many homes so the usual way of communication over distance was a letter of a call placed in the red telephone box, like that used by Mug to call her boyfriend, which was next to the fish and chip shop, and 'smelled of urine with the calling cards of local bookers lending it a seedy air'. not too many cars, either, and hitching lifts was still easy. Hard to imagine it now.The
Narration was by Tracy Norman and her voice was a good choice for Mug, her reading clear and well paced, but lacked a certain animation at times which lessened the feeling of character. Some of the voices of others were given gentle accents to distinguish them but essentially there was very little attempt to give individual voice to the various protagonists, male or female, although this did not adversely affect understanding
My thanks to the rights holder of A Slice of the Seventies, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of the book via Audiobook Boom. I am biased in my enjoyment of this book as, like Mug, I saw Hendrix at the Isle of Wight festival just weeks before his death. And it jogged pleasant memories, plus some not so pleasant. However, although limited, it is an insight into a time very different from today, yet people don't change. Recommended to those, like myself have a nostalgic remembrances of the time and for all younger adults who would like a small experience of lol cultural life at that time. I look forward to the next book in this series
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