The Beat Goes On
It’s been a very busy week for Team Beehive. It started with an interview with Jo Good on BBC Radio London. It almost didn’t happen – the BBC building in Portland Place, just off Oxford Street in London, is…
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Launch Party
It was a great evening at the Ideas Hub – good book, great quiz (more details to follow) and a fantastic crowd. My Auntie Rita (88) made it unexpectedly. My sister-in-law struggled through the Saturday, post-football traffic, friends from Norfolk…
Beyond the Beehive is out!
This is almost unbelievable! Beyond the Beehive is on sale now. You can buy the paperback here and the Kindle version here. Thank you for the support of the readers and followers of this blog, and to Christine Wilkinson who…
The Saturday Girls
The Saturday Girls – out now! It is the Sixties, a time of mods and rockers, the music of Motown, Milk Bars and Ban-the Bomb marches. Best friends since childhood, Linda and Sandra live on a working class housing estate…
Press
PRESS RELEASE THE SATURDAY GIRLS by ELIZABETH WOODCRAFT An evocative story about female friendships and being a mod girl in the 60s The Saturday Girls (formerly Beyond the Beehive) is out now, published by Bonnier Zaffre. Written by a former…
Pop, Pirates and Postmen
Living in 1966. They say if you remember the 60s you weren’t there. But some of us kept a diary! (a medical diary only in the sense that my uncle who was a doctor gave it to me – it…
Beyond the Beehive
It’s happening! It’s finished. The final stages of editing are underway. Beyond the Beehive is on track to be here in time for your (late) summer holiday reading. To paraphrase the Beatles, it’s been a long, cold painful winter in…
Blues Unlimited
I’ve written before (in Zoot Suits) about my love affair with the blues in the early 60s, listening to Mike Raven’s show on Radio 390, in the bedroom I shared with my sister, trying to catch the names of the…
Off the Hook
This week I have been trying to cancel my landline – a long, arduous and probably expensive task. Telephones, phone calls, numbers have been going round in my head and last night first line of the Stones’ Off the Hook…
Beyond the Beehive
Get ready. It’s coming. The characters you enjoyed, the music you loved, the period you know from A Sense of Occasion are all about to reappear. And this time it’s a novel. Beyond the Beehive takes us back to Chelmsford,…
The Sixties Made Me 