Category: sixties
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Flashes of Doubt
Some say it was during the 1960s that the idea of ‘the generation gap’ entered into popular usage. It became a useful phrase that summed up the differing attitudes towards politics, behaviour, music, fashion and virtually everything else between the young and the old — with the ‘old’ including everyone over 30. Children born after…
Isabella Muir
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Whispers of Fortune
For many people across the world, 1961 offered hope and optimism. For others not so much. On 20 January that year, John Fitzgerald Kennedy became President of the United States. In Whispers of Fortune we learn how the words of his inaugural speech crossed the Atlantic to be heard by a young woman who was…
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Storms of Change
More than a decade after the end of the Second World War, Britain was still reeling from the loss of life, the devastation, and the underlying fear that such hard-earned peace might be short-lived. But then a new decade arrived, bringing with it a generation of youngsters who believed they could put the past behind…
Isabella Muir
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Waiting for Sunshine
On her third birthday Libby Frobisher met her father for the first time and in this extract we learn just how difficult it can be to look back on the past with a clear focus, especially when trying to remember the years when we were small and the world was large and confusing… …when it…
Isabella Muir
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Cars, cars and more cars
In Flashes of Doubt – set in 1962 Britain – we get a glimpse of the thoughts of William Arnold as he remembers the warning his father had given him years earlier about the rise and rise of the motor car. The route William used to take each workday, from his cottage in Burton Street…
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Looking back to the future
If you have read any of my books, you will know I have a fascination with the recent past. My stories are all set during two eras: the Second World War years and the vibrant decade of the 1960s. Writing any fiction, whether about then or now, involves a certain amount of research. In fact,…
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Treat yourself to a cosy Christmas!
It’s that time of year when the shops are busy, the nights are long, the weather can be tricky (!) and you might be wondering how and when you can grab a quiet moment to relax. Whatever your plans, if you have the chance to squeeze in a peaceful moment or two, you might like…
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Delving into the past
Anyone who has read any of my stories will know I have a fascination with the past, specifically the more recent past. Writing my first series of Sussex Crime novellas I spent happy hours researching what life was like on the Home Front in England during the Second World War. Research for my novels took…
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Meet the tenants of Number 1, Mountfield Road!
Anyone who has read my stories will know I am fascinated by the recent past. That fascination leads me to be forever questioning. How did we arrive at the life we live now, in the world we live in now. Thinking about the how and why of it all, I’ve been imagining a scenario where…
Isabella Muir
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Meet the tenants of Number 1, Mountfield Road!
Anyone who has read my stories will know I am fascinated by the recent past. That fascination leads me to be forever questioning. How did we arrive at the life we live now, in the world we live in now. Thinking about the how and why of it all, I’ve been imagining a scenario where…
Isabella Muir
Isabella Muir 