I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum th — Sara Sheridan

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat — Sara Sheridan, London Calling

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. — Sara Sheridan

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven — James Ellroy, The Big Nowhere

You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at — Anne Roiphe, Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every d — Sara Sheridan

Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has — Lucy Foley, The Invitation

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life. — Lucy Foley, The Invitation

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true. — Julian Houston, New Boy

$Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are — a rescheduling of life in the suburban living room has taken place.$

... family men, Claude.""Then why aren't they home with their families?""You haven't been listening to me, Claude. It ta — Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

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