Surviving the Sixties

Hilary Mantel

  • Shoe: The Odyssey of a Sixties Survivor by Jonathan Guinness
    Century Hutchinson, 233 pp, £14.95, March 1989, ISBN 0 09 173857 1
  • Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman by Peter Feibleman
    Chatto, 364 pp, £14.95, February 1989, ISBN 0 7011 3441 0

Once upon a time there was a Tory grandee who owned a house on the Costa Brava. Venturing forth to an art gallery one day, who should he meet but a hippy. The hippy was a beautiful young lady, rather thin but very clean, and she was known to her friends as Shoe. Shoe had wandered in many lands, pursued various trades and callings, sampled most of the religions of the earth and most of its banned substances. Sometimes Shoe sold lavender bags, or performed as an acrobat. Sometimes she was seen looking in dustbins. Sometimes she visited Salvador Dali.

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