Dominic Sandbrook was born in Shropshire in 1974, an indirect result of the Heath government's three-day week giving couples more leisure time. He is now a prolific reviewer and commentator, writing regularly for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Sunday Times. He is the author of two hugely acclaimed books on Britain in the Fifties and Sixties, Never Had It So Good and White Heat.
Superb ... vivid ... magnificent ... Anyone who was there should
read it: and so should anyone who was not
*Literary Review*
Hugely entertaining, always compelling, often hilarious
*Sunday Telegraph*
Thrillingly panoramic ... he vividly re-creates the texture of
everyday life in a thousand telling details
*Observer*
Masterly ... nothing escapes his gaze
*Independent on Sunday*
Splendidly readable ... his almost pitch-perfect ability to
recreate the mood and atmospherics of the time is remarkable
*Economist*
There is so much to enjoy ... Neatly interweaving his
interpretation of the Heath years with insightful reflections on
everything from racism in television to the rise of
self-sufficiency, football hooliganism and sex comedies, Sandbrook
has produced a memorable portrait of Britain in an era of angst and
upheaval
*Sunday Times*
Sandbrook is an inveterate demolisher of myths
*Independent on Sunday*
This epically enthralling account of the Seventies will be read
with embarrassed recognition by those who lived through it and
disbelieving astonishment by those who missed it
*Independent*
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