martin
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I don't know if British novelist Robert Wilson is as popular in the US as here in Europe. Over here he is topping the charts with his exciting historical thrillers. I am about halfway through his "The company of strangers" from 2001. It is a superbly well written account starting in World War 2 and going up to present time. The novel's heroine has just returned to her native England from Portugal to be at her mother's deathbed and following funeral in 1968:
"- London, still swinging in the sixties, rejuvenated her - the wild fashions, the incredible variety of music alter Portugal's monotony, the sheer amount of stuff to buy. She bought winter clothes, went to Biba, wore jeans for the first time, smoked Gitanes, wondered why her mother had an entire collection of Herb Albert and his Tijuana Brass and ate her first hamburger at a place called a Wimpy bar..."
Unfortunately the "Albert" misspelling wasn't picked up by the correctors..
- greetings from the nice and warm north -
Martin
"- London, still swinging in the sixties, rejuvenated her - the wild fashions, the incredible variety of music alter Portugal's monotony, the sheer amount of stuff to buy. She bought winter clothes, went to Biba, wore jeans for the first time, smoked Gitanes, wondered why her mother had an entire collection of Herb Albert and his Tijuana Brass and ate her first hamburger at a place called a Wimpy bar..."
Unfortunately the "Albert" misspelling wasn't picked up by the correctors..
- greetings from the nice and warm north -
Martin