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Mala is eight years old in 1966 and Bayswater is her oyster as far as she and her three best friends are concerned. In spite of being poor - Beth is the daughter of a prostitute, Caroline's parents are Chinese waiters and Jan's Irish drunks, while Mala's mother is a Ceylonese immigrant single mother who cleans for a living - and being visited regularly by the social, the girls know that life is great and it's only going to get better . . .
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Paddington, London 1966: four small girls in a playground, "and only one has a bag of sweets--and I wasn't going to be her friend unless she gave me one: Caroline." So it begins, the story of Mala ("I", "fresh from the Commonwealth"), Caroline, Janice and Bethany: four very different girls growing up--from swapping sweets to self-defence classes--in the London of the late ‘60s and ‘70s. Shyama Perera's Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet vividly evokes that London, its streets, its fashions, its songs: read the novel as an archive of ‘70s kitsch. But this is kitsch taken seriously, the pleasure which links otherwise disparate-- in some ways, desperate-- lives. "Ceylon! Such a lovely place. Why don't you go back there?": the Powellites, and the skinheads, are part of Mala's, and her mother's, everyday life--but only a part. More pressing--this is, after all, a girl's coming-of-age novel--are the glimpses of the sexual life to come: sisters with "hippy" beads and boyfriends from Carnaby Street, Bethany's (prostitute) mother who teaches "French", David Cassidy's legendary stay at the Dorchester Hotel. In other words, a world saturated by pop, measured out in magazines, gorgeous boys, and shiny white plastic boots. --Vicky Lebeau
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A truely gorgeous book unhackneyed, genuinely touching. Read it if you have any taste at all. This is chick lit at its finest (Minx)
A wonderfully upbeat story celebrating optimism and friendship; Perera's love for the London of her childhood is completely infectious (The Express - Alex Mitchell)
'A beautifully told tale of the girls' struggle to take control of their futures' Company
A beautifully told tale of the girls' struggle to take control of their futures (Company)
A cast of colourful characters, a delicate touch, and a most affecting sensibility add up to pure joy (Big Issue)
'Witty, funny, sad, nostalgic, with very believable characters. A gem' Bookseller
Lively first novel. Perera writes winningly about budding young girls, and recalls the feel-good innocence of the 19702 with brio (Independent on Sunday)
'A cast of colourful characters, a delicate touch, and a most affecting sensibility add up to pure joy' Big Issue
'A truly gorgeous book unhackneyed, genuinely touching. Read it if you have any taste at all. This is chick lit at its finest'
Minx
'A wonderfully upbeat story celebrating optimism and friendship; Perera' s love for the London of her childhood is completely infectious'
The Express - Alex Mitchell
A wonderfully upbeat story celebrating optimism and friendship; Perera's love for the London of her childhood is completely infectious (The Express - Alex Mitchell)
'A beautifully told tale of the girls' struggle to take control of their futures' Company
A beautifully told tale of the girls' struggle to take control of their futures (Company)
A cast of colourful characters, a delicate touch, and a most affecting sensibility add up to pure joy (Big Issue)
'Witty, funny, sad, nostalgic, with very believable characters. A gem' Bookseller
Lively first novel. Perera writes winningly about budding young girls, and recalls the feel-good innocence of the 19702 with brio (Independent on Sunday)
'A cast of colourful characters, a delicate touch, and a most affecting sensibility add up to pure joy' Big Issue
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0340728205
- ISBN 13 9780340728208
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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