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The Ball Game by Fran Brady, romantic fiction Fran’s debut novel – The Ball Game – plunges us into the world of the 1960’s
  • the clothes
  • the music
  • the make-up
  • university students with grants
  • teenagers with attitude
  • baffled parents trying to grasp what is happening
  • a decade that saw amazing changes in
    • education
    • technology
    • communications
    • relationships between the sexes
  • and a shift in attitudes towards (among other things)
Mature Students The Ball Game is set partly in St Andrews University and partly in a farm in north east Scotland - near Dundee and Forfar. Two worlds collide as a girl from a down-to-earth farming background finds herself in the ivory tower of:
  • incomprehensible lectures by a fossil-like lecturer
  • room-maids in the residences
  • formal Balls with orchid corsages
  • Oxbridge rejects
  • and an old MG-TF sports car
Cows and 1960s history

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WH Smith

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