Nick Hornby misses nothing in recreating the attitudes and atmosphere of the 1960s with uncanny accuracy. Barbara Parker realises that becoming Miss Blackpool is never going to fulfil her yearning to make people laugh so instantly escapes to London. There she becomes "Sophia Straw", the star of a spectacularly successful domestic sitcom produced within a television scene in which innovation is struggling to overcome old-fashioned convention and respectability which eventually it does. The swinging sixties have arrived!
(Jane Grey-Edwards - bwl 82 Autumn 2016 ) |
