What the Grown-ups Were Doing

Michele Hanson grew up an ''oddball tomboy disappointment'' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials. Yet this shopfront of respectability masked a multitude of anxieties and suspected salacious goings-on. Was Shirley''s mother really having an affair with the man from the carpet shop? Did chatterbox Dora Colborne ha...