Times and lives can be ordinary yet still fascinating and touching to others.
The adventures continue, each moment to be relished and cherished, creating memories for a lifetime and future generations..
For a convent schoolGirl from a relatively sheltered background, it was the centre of her world and the beginning of her adult life.
Fashion, art and music led the youth movement.
Everything was changing so fast and for the first time, young people were successfully challenging the status quo.
London in the sixties was an amazing and exciting place to be.
It spans revolutions and innovations in science, technology and the arts.
For the writer however, it\'s a fantastic ride from fairy tales, comics and Children\'s Encyclopaedia to The Times newspaper; from skipping ropes, Saturday morning pictures and toy pianos to appearing on TV\'s ground-breaking show Ready, Steady, Go! The timeline for Part One covers 1950 to 1971, with references to the rich legacy of family history.
For this writer\'s family, it\'s a harsh contrast between the luxury of generations of colonial life in India to the privations of post-war London.
Times of My Life: A Forest Gate Girl is the story of an ordinary Girl born into an ordinary family and how historic and global events affect the family and her life.
Times and lives can be ordinary yet still fascinating and touching to others
