The city had begun to enter me. It was the ultimate distraction. London was an endless maze of places I could lose myself....Walking, I wanted to live on every gorgeous London street.--from Off the King's Road In an understated, urbane style that recalls such memoirists as Joan Didion and Paula Fox, Phyllis Raphael describes how she landed in London in December 1968 as the restless wife of a Hollywood movie producer. She had brought her three young...
I was born in the 1970's, am not divorced, have no kids, and have never lived in London, so I can say with all honestly I have NO IDEA what it would have been like to be her. Nevetheless, I was completely intrigued at this snapshot of life...and truthfully a little jealous! A great read for anyone who feels like they missed out on all things swinging and wants a glimpse of it. Well-written, easy to follow, and hard to put...
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Against the backdrop of mad, insane psychedelic London of the 60's, Phyllis Raphael recounts her saga of going from the devastation of an unwanted divorce, to her completely unexpected and often naughty adventures on her to way to a rebirth of herself as a mother, woman and dynamic creative force. With great elegance but without any trace of Ladies Home Journal bogus gentility, Raphael writes as a writer in the 21st...
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