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Perfect wives in ideal homes : the story of women in the 1950s

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In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures; a promised land of batch-baking, maraschino cherries and brightly hued plastic.

A world where the darker side of the decade encompassed rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster.

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it.

Step back in time to when our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled.

This is their story.

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Penguin Books Ltd
0241958040 / 9780241958049
Paperback / softback
03/03/2016
United Kingdom
English
xviii, 526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white)
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Viking, 2015.