A TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022 ------------------ 'Glorious ...
It's rare to read anything so teeming with life' SPECTATOR, Books
of the Year 'This is Kynaston at his best ... A rich and vivid
picture of a nation in all its human complexity' IAN JACK 'A
compulsive read ... Generous as well as sharp' MARGARET DRABBLE 'I
was captivated by its brilliance' D. J. TAYLOR __________________
The 'real' Sixties began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable
Friday, the Beatles hit the world with their first single, 'Love Me
Do', and the first James Bond film, Dr No, had its world premiere
in London: two icons of the future heralding a social and cultural
revolution. On the Cusp, continuing David Kynaston's groundbreaking
history of post-war Britain, takes place during the summer and
early autumn of 1962, in the charged months leading up to the
moment that a country changed. The Rolling Stones' debut at the
Marquee Club, the last Gentlemen versus Players match at Lord's,
the issue of Britain's relationship with Europe starting to divide
the country, Telstar the satellite beaming live TV pictures across
the world, 'Telstar' the record a siren call to a techno future -
these were months thick with incident, all woven together here with
an array of fresh contemporary sources, including diarists both
famous and obscure. Britain would never be the same again after
these months. Sometimes indignant, sometimes admiring, always
empathetic, On the Cusp evokes a world of seaside holidays, of
church fetes, of Steptoe and Son - a world still of seemingly
settled social and economic certainties, but in fact on the edge of
fundamental change. ___________________ 'Sparkles with voices from
a vanished world ... An entrancing representation, full of
exquisite detail' KATE WILLIAMS 'What a joy it has been to find
myself wholly immersed in the richness of Kynaston's account ...
Thrilling' JULIET NICOLSON
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