British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the
mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to
Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who
were there. Through this prism, it paints a revealing portrait of
twentieth-century Britain in summertime: how we were, how families
functioned, what houses and gardens and streets were like, what
journeys were like, and what people did all day in their free time.
It explores their expectations, hopes, fears and habits, the rules
or lack of rules under which they lived, their happiness and
sadness, their sense of being treasured or neglected - all within
living memory, from pre-war summers to the late 1970s. Ysenda takes
us back to the long stretch of time from the last days of June till
the early days of September - those months when the term-time self
was cast off and you could become the person you really were, and
you had (if you were lucky) enough hours in the endless succession
of days to become good at the things that would later define your
adulthood. The 'showpiece' part of the summer holidays was 'the
summer holiday', when families took off to the seaside, or to
grandparents' houses teeming with cousins, or on early package
holidays to France or Spain, siblings wedged into the back of small
cars, roof-racks clattering, mothers preparing picnics. British
Summer Time Begins is as much about the long weeks either side of
that holiday as the trip itself: the weeks when nothing much
officially happened, boredom often lurked nearby, and you vanished
for hours on end, nobody much knowing or even caring where you
were. Could it be that those unscheduled days were actually the
most important and formative of your life? From the author of the
beloved Terms & Conditions, British Summer Time Begins is a
delightful, nostalgic and joyous celebration of summers.
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