Bloom of Youth

Moving Times #1

by Rachel Anderson

The first in the outstanding MOVING TIMES trilogy, from a Guardian Award winner. It's the 1950 there's no half-way between girlhood and womanhood - so where does a schoolgirl seek Life and Hope?It is the late 1950 teenagers have barely begun to be invented. Ruth and her older sister Mary struggle with the chaos of their parents' attempts to support five children by renting a rambling country house and running it as a holiday home for children of the rich. When their father dies, their increasingly desperate mother turns her efforts to the two hapless girls. Eager to marry them off, she plunges them into dancing classes and presentation at Buckingham Palace as phoney under-age debs. Instead Mary finds LIFE at art school in a nearby town, with beatniks, jazz poets and dancing in the river. When friends persuade their mother to take the family to a new start in London, Ruth finds that she, too, has other life-plans . . .

170 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

Reviews

[Sarah Mandla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Missed a plot.... was OK read for a train journey.

[Varsha Seshan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can't decide what I feel about the book. There were sentences that just touched me with their longing for a connection with beauty and nature. The Personal Journal is poignant, but then, where's the story? That's what I missed most. Plot. Story. Something that happens.

[Louise Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have never heard of this reader before and must admit enjoyed it but would have enjoyed it more if their was an actual story involved which their wasnt al right suppose their was a tale of being your own person and making your own steps on the planet but not much else i reckon the vast majority of people would be bored stiff but at the same time it gave a glimpse into 50s life and it was realxing but did not really grab attention I would reaD others by this author though !!!