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The Time of Our Lives (Paperback)

by Imogen Parker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Books; New edition edition (1 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 055215153X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552151535
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 35,627 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It is 1953. At the Coronation party at the Palace Hotel, two lives are about to change forever. Claudia - 16, beautiful, fragile and an outsider in this small seaside town - finds herself talking to Michael, also a newcomer, who is struggling with a rocky marriage. Their instant, irresistible attraction to one another will have consequences which stretch far into the future. Against the ever changing backdrop of events ranging from grey post-war austerity to technicolour rock and roll, from Suez to the summer of love, from Bill Haley to The Beatles, from the buttoned-up glamour of the 50s to the rebellious freedom of the 60s, "The Time of Our Lives" is an intensely passionate love story and a captivating chronicle of the times.

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June 1953, and the South Coast town of Kingshaven is gripped by Coronation fever.Libby King prepares to host a party – her first big event as proprietor – at the Palace, the luxurious hotel owned for generations by her family.Among those gathered to celebrate the dawn of the New Elizabethan age is Michael Quinn, a young schoolteacher recently arrived from the North, who has only accepted the invitation under pressure from his socially ambitious wife, Sylvia. When he meets Claudia Dearchild, also an outsider in this insular world, there is an instant, electric attraction which will irrevocably change the course of all their lives.

‘The Time of our Lives deftly combines social comedy with acute observation of post-war life.Imogen Parker’s unfolding story of family and individuals against a backdrop of huge social change is written with beguiling warmth and humanity.’ Helen Dunmore, author of The Siege

Across the austere fifties and the rebellious sixties, Imogen Parker charts the tumultuous events in a town whose history seems uncannily to reflect the history of the nation.At once a heart-breaking love story and a captivating chronicle of our times, this is the first novel in a powerful, poignant and intoxicating trilogy about the passions and fashions of the last fifty years.

0593052943 9780593052945 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully absorbing and romantic read, 26 Jun 2006
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This is a fabulous read - really absorbing, romantic, and quietly gripping, chronicling as it does the intertwining lives of several families in a seaside town on the south coast, from 1953 onwards. One feels that a whole age or era is being portayed, so it provides a vivid piece of social history as much as a page-turning story. It's very well written, and so carefully thought out. I can't wait to read the next installment and hope it won't be too long coming!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Modern Saga, 15 Jun 2006
This review is from: The Time of Our Lives (Hardcover)
This is one of the best novels I have read for a long time. It's ambitious in its scope in that it's no less than the portrait of the Elizabethan age - perhaps the only contemporary novel to have attempted this. It's also a wonderfully gripping human drama in which the lives of the various residents of a small South Coast town cross and divide in intriguing, satisfying and romantic ways. The great pleasure of this book is that it's so utterly absorbing and 'easy to read' - but at the same time it's beautifully written, skilfully constructed and very rewarding - the period detail is very well evoked. As 'The Time of Our Lives' is the first in a trilogy I now find myself wondering what course the characters' lives will take in the second volume, which I already eagerly await.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Its a saga..., 1 April 2008
I've just read this and sort of enjoyed it for what it was (a SAGA), although was expecting a bit more given the quotes on the cover from the Times and the Sunday Times, both extolling it as a brillant 'beach read' - naive me??... maybe I expect more on my hols... (and I have to confess here that I love a bit of GOOD chick-lit every now and then).
It's definitely not a literary read, but it's ok as generic saga, and I mean generic, I would definitely not look back at it as a re-readable novel, but might look forward, if I had nothing better to do, and a few quid to spare, to read the next one, perhaps from a charity shop...
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