James Walton

Those weren’t the days

A review of Upstairs at the Party, by Linda Grant, a story about the long-lost world of 1970s student life that doesn’t ever quite cohere

Linda Grant [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 21 June 2014

  • Upstairs at the Party

    Linda Grant

    Virago, pp. 306

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