Literary Review
“The book works best in conveying the excitement generated by ideas, not just straightforwardly political ones but those about art and the wider definition of liberation...I wasn't there, but I'm happy that Rowbotham was, and that she remembers it with such clarity.”
The Women's Review of Books
“A rich, painful picture emerges of women searching for both words and spaces to articulate the insights of feminism.”
Times Higher Education SUpplement
“The accounts of the successes, failures, joys and pains of young adulthood have the qualities to be found in the best creative writing. It is a book to be read for the quality of its writing and the honesty and humor of its presentation, as much as for the history it reveals.”— Dorothy Thompson
Mary Maher - Irish Times
“A record of an era, winding one girl's coming-of-age story through the drama of political evolution ... She has captured that amazing sense of possibility that grew with each year, the confidence that not only was the promised dream within reach, it was also upon us.”
Joan Bakewell - Sunday Times
“This is a document historians dream of ... it captures the spirit of the 1960s – its fun and crazy idealism – in the life of one spirited young woman.”
Julie Christie
“Unerringly perceptive and funny ... if you want to know what the sixties were like, read this book.”
Dorothy Thompson - Times Higher Education SUpplement
“The accounts of the successes, failures, joys and pains of young adulthood have the qualities to be found in the best creative writing. It is a book to be read for the quality of its writing and the honesty and humor of its presentation, as much as for the history it reveals.”
Irish Times
“A record of an era, winding one girl's coming-of-age story through the drama of political evolution ... She has captured that amazing sense of possibility that grew with each year, the confidence that not only was the promised dream within reach, it was also upon us.”— Mary Maher
Sunday Times
“This is a document historians dream of ... it captures the spirit of the 1960s – its fun and crazy idealism – in the life of one spirited young woman.”— Joan Bakewell
Mary Maher
A record of an era, winding one girl's coming-of-age story through the drama of political evolution.
Women's Review of Books
We catch a whiff of urgency and hope, briefly as ubiquitous and available as oxygen in the sixties London air.
Robert Irwin
A serious book, but also a seriously funny book. —Scotland on Sunday
Nicci Gerrard
[R]are and revealing. —The Observer
Booknews
Feminist and leftist historian Sheila Rowbotham (history, Manchester U., UK) writes an engrossing, wryly humorous memoir of her life, simultaneously providing an account of the history of the Left in Britain through the 1960s. Includes a section of b&w photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
