# Chelsea Bird

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- Book: [Chelsea Bird](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-ironside/chelsea-bird) ([Chelsea Bird.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-ironside/chelsea-bird.md))
- Authors: [Virginia Ironside](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-ironside)
- Publisher: quercus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8206-862-4
- Published: 2013-11-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The debut novel of acclaimed writer Virginia Ironside, author of No, I Don't Want to join a Bookclub, originally published in 1964, when she was aged just twenty. London, 1960s. A cultural revolution is taking place. Young people are finally being seen as a force to be reckoned with. But for eighteen-year-old art student Harriet and her Chelsea friends, this amounts to one thing: being'In'. The King's Road swarms with people wanting to see and be seen; upper-class boys with faux cockney accents party with models, beatniks and photographers; teddy boys are good people to nod to in the street; transport caffs are the must-go places for food, and black men have suddenly become the people to know. Through Harriet's eyes, Virginia Ironside paints a witty, tongue-in-cheek portrait of life in 1960's London that will strike a nostalgic chord with all those who were there, and make all those who weren't wish they had been.