Girlitude A Portrait of the 50s and 60s Author:Emma Tennant In her highly acclaimed fictional memoir, Strangers: A Family Romance, Emma Tennant painted a picture of her colourful and eccentric forebears. Now, in Girlitude, she gives us a description of her own life as a girl, without fictionalisation. From 'the brightly lit scenes which furnish memory', Tennant provi... more »des a memoir of her years from eighteen to thirty: from her coming-out ball and through numerous marriages in a fascinating portrait of her 'girlitude' years of the Fifties and Sixties. « less