Heatwave : The Summer of 1976 – Britain at Boiling Point by John L Williams royal family 'A modern day Nancy Mitford

'A modern day Nancy Mitford

sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about domestic life

intimate environment of a long boozy lunch

Lavishly illustrated in full colour

Heatwave : The Summer of 1976 – Britain at Boiling Point by John L Williams royal family 'A modern day Nancy MitfordWith scorching temperatures soaring to 35 degrees Centigrade, severe water shortages and a sunburned population queuing at the street standpipes, the summer of 1976 will always be remembered as Britain's hottest on record. But the wave that hit the UK that year was also cultural and political with upheaval on the streets, in parliament, on the cricket pitch and on the radios and tv sets of a nation at a crossroads. Before this blistering summer,