1968?
I thought it was first published in 1953.
Compare Shelagh Delaney's 1956 'A Taste of Honey", set in 1950s Salford, and later made into a 1960s film starring Rita Tushingham
--Angela Allison, Coventry UK
"I know the one thing we did right,
was the day we started to fight.
Keep your eyes on the prize, Hold on!"
---- Marika Sherwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I stumbled across Catherine Cookson's Colour Blind in one of our charity
> shops. Cookson is a 'romantic' novelist so I had not read anything by her,
> but thought this ought to be interesting. It certainly is, if you want to
> see what 'message' such a popular novelist gave to her readers in 1968.
> Briefly, it is the story of a working class woman who marries an African
> seaman, has a 'coloured' daughter.. Very interesting attitudes.
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