The Time of Our Lives

by Parker Imogen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

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  This work is set in June, 1953. England is gripped by Coronation fever as the young Queen Elizabeth is crowned. At the Palace Hotel on the south coast, owned for generations by the King family, the eldest daughter, Libby, prepares to host a Coronation party - her first big event as proprietor. Among the citizens of Kingshaven gathering at the hotel for the celebrations is a reluctant guest, Michael Quinn, a young school teacher recently arrived in the town from the North, who has only accepted the invitation under pressure from his socially ambitious wife, Sylvia. When he meets Claudia, also an outsider in Kingshaven's insular world, there is an instant, electric attraction between them which will irrevocably change the course of their lives. From the New Look to the mini-skirt, from flower arranging to flower power, The Time Of Our Lives follows the events of a town whose events seem uncannily to reflect the history of the nation.

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  Paperback
  2007

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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.