Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country

by Juliet Nicolson

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** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **

'This book is a must' Peter Hennessy

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.

The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis, unemployment was on the rise, and yet, underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir.

From poets to pop stars, shopkeepers to schoolchildren, and her own family's experiences, Juliet Nicolson traces the hardship of that frozen winter and the emancipation that followed. That spring, new life was unleashed, along with freedoms we take for granted today.

'An absolutely mesmerising book' Antonia Fraser

  • ISBN10 1473566711
  • ISBN13 9781473566712
  • Publish Date 4 February 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Vintage Digital
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 368
  • Language English