I came down from my bedroom hideaway one Saturday morning; a week after I had been up rooted from my school and friends in Haslemere. I had been having trouble making friends in my new school in Kingston and I was sulking. My mum and dad were waiting to surprise me. A small puppy sat on the tiled floor wagging his tail with excitement. He had shiny eyes, a dark brown coat and a white furry chest. I knelt down and stroked...
Teenage Blues Claire had two reasons to feel miserable in autumn 1963. She had just started the third secondary school she had attended since she was eleven; and her mother had put her on a strict diet, after Claire had returned from a youth club camp fourteen pounds heavier. She was given a boiled egg and a Ryvita for breakfast; a Ryvita thin slice of cheese and an apple for lunch and meat with piles of greens and no pot...
Identity Crisis Sitting at a table with her mother and father at the side of an area designated as the dance floor Claire felt extremely self conscious. She had realized as soon as she arrived that she was wearing the wrong dress for the charity dance. She looked with dismay at the dresses the other girls were wearing, mainly mini shift dresses the latest fashion in 1965. Claire was wearing a dress that had a fitted bodic...
