Promised You A Miracle: UK80-82
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Published: July 2016
Published By: Penguin
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Product Description
We still live in the outward-looking, market-driven, polarized, colourful and cruel country that the early eighties brought into being. Why did Britain change so dramatically? What was destroyed, and created? This is the untold story of what it felt like and how it made us who we are.
'Offers so much pleasure and insight.' Guardian
'Entertaining, convincing and timely.' The Times
'Beckett has a fine eye for detail . . . He highlights the era's cultural energy, from gritty TV dramas such as Boys From the Blackstuff and new media experiments to bands such as Simple Minds and ABC.' Evening Standard
'Potent, poetic . . . No moment in this compelling history feels glossed over.' Lynsey Hanley, Financial Times
'A gripping mixture of contemporary history and vivid reportage.' Independent