- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: gyronny books, Northampton, United Kingdomgyronny books
AbeBooks seller since November 16, 2025
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 18.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
UK 1st edition 1st print hardback. Published by Viking in 2019. The book is fine and appears unread. Edges very lightly tanned. The unclipped wrap is fine.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1776526839379
- Title
- How Was It For You?
- Author
- Nicholson, Virginia
- Publisher
- London : Viking
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241242371
- ISBN 13
- 9780241242377
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 804 grams
- Dimensions
- 45 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 240 millimeters depth
"A feeling that we could do whatever we liked swept through us in the 60s..."
The sexual revolution liberated a generation. But men most of all.
We tend to think of the 60s as a decade sprinkled with stardust: a time of space travel and utopian dreams, but above all of sexual abandonment. When the pill was introduced on the NHS in 1961 it seemed, for the first time, that women - like men - could try without buying.
"It was paradise for men... all these willing girls..."
But this book - by 'one of the great social historians of our time' - describes a turbulent power struggle.
Here are the voices from the battleground. Meet dollybird Mavis, debutante Kristina, Beryl who sang with the Beatles, bunny girl Patsy, Christian student Anthea, industrial campaigner Mary and countercultural Caroline. From Carnaby Street to Merseyside, from mods to rockers, from white gloves to Black is Beautiful, their stories throw an unsparing spotlight on morals, four-letter words, faith, drugs, race, bomb culture and sex.
This is a moving, shocking book about tearing up the world and starting again. It's about peace, love, psychedelia and strange pleasures, but it is also about misogyny, violation and discrimination - half a century before feminism rebranded. For out of the swamp of gropers and groupies, a movement was emerging, and discovering a new cause: equality.
The 1960s: this was where it all began. Women would never be the same again.
'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman
'Intimate, immersive, often moving, How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston
'An absorbing study of an extraordinary age. Beautifully written and intensively researched' Selina Hastings
'Every baby boomer should read this great and wonderfully revelatory book if only to shout, "Ah yes, that's exactly what it was like for me!"' Anne Sebba
'Virginia Nicholson is the outstanding recorder of British lives in the twentieth century... and this account of the 1960s is the most vivid and moving of all her works' Carmen Callil
'Essential reading' Marina Lewycka
'A dazzling kaleidoscope of facts, feelings and observations' Juliet Nicolson
'A hugely ambitious, kaleidoscope of a book' Richard Vinen
'Makes it feel like the Sixties have never been away' Hunter Davies
'I was there, and she's right' Valerie Grove
'Sparklingly readable . . . Having read Nicholson's magisterial and sensuous overview of the decade, I feel I'm floating above the Sixties (a bit like Lucy in the Sky) and looking down on them with a new understanding ' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Times
'The stories are terrific' Rosie Boycott, Financial Times
'Sparkling . . . there is a wonderfully diverse range of voices . . . we have a long way to go, but reading this book made me grateful for how far we have come' Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
gyronny books
Northampton, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since November 16, 2025
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 14 to 45 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 32.00 | £ 53.00 |
Payment methods
Store description
Modern first editions, including children's books. Mostly signed. Well packed in bubblewrap and boxes. For feedback look on ebid under gyronny books.
Specialty
Modern first editionsSeller's business information
gyronny books
United Kingdom
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to gyronny books, Northampton, United Kingdom, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.