Straddling the century, this colourful memoir tells of a childhood with an English rose and an English-German spy as parents, the confusions of a Dickensian schooling, coming of age in London's legendary sixties, before becoming a cave-dwelling hippy on the Greek island of Crete. We follow Shirley to exotic places where she lived and loved. Her new knowledge about men, her marriages, triumphs, and misfortunes, are laid bare.
This is one woman's story of her time, but all women will see reflections of themselves.
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'Loaded with heavy backpacks, my sister, Pam, and I hit the road for four months. After a number of weeks traveling through Europe we arrived off the ferry from Athens into the port of Heraklion, Crete. In the youth hostel we asked the manager what we should see and where we should go. Waggling his finger, he solemnly intoned, "Whatever you do, do NOT go to Matala. It's filled with sex and drugs and filthy hippies." So we got on the next bus to Matala.' FROM THE AUTHOR
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Shirley Read-Jahn brings her storyto life, from her birth in World WarII, her education in England beforebecoming a hippy and living in anancient Roman burial tomb inMatala, Crete. It goes on to coverher various colourful careers,including swimwear model,interpreter, landscape gardener,paralegal and events organiser. She also co-founded the highly-successful San Francisco Jazz Festival aswell as running her own landscape business in the UnitedStates. She also addresses her numerous marriages, and some of theglamorous relationships and people she knew over her sevendecades to date. Shirley has belly-danced since her thirties, stillplays table-tennis, and now lives in Australia. In retirement, she hasfinally found time to devote to her passion for writing the booksswirling around in her head, including this autobiography.
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