Published: 1994, Headline Publishing Group Genre: Fiction Themes: Family, childhood, 1960s, Windrush generation My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤ The story jumps straight in to the daily life of the Jacobs family, as told by their youngest daughter Angela (or Anne to her father), who captures the noise and vibrancy of her childhood in London during the 1960s. Her parents arrived on the Empire Windrush from Jamaica, and they carry a feeling of difference throughout their lives. They are desperate to fit in, but never want to be seen as any trouble. Despite the Jamaican connection, much of the book is a universal story of family life in that post war era when everyone wanted to make something of themselves and do well in life. Many of Angela's recollections reflected my own experience as a child of that time, and I could clearly remember the clothes and hairstyles that she describes so vividly. (Yes, yes, I know, I don't look a day over thirty [pause for laughter] but Harold Ma...