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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)
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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:
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- 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
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