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Determined to begin again, she confronts uncertainty about her past, incomplete knowledge, and imperfect memory, where secrets and omissions shape competing versions of events. The Second World War’s legacy casts a long shadow over relationships and lost lives, while the story also tracks rapid social change, class nuances, and housing tensions amid urban expansion.","Sing Me Who You Are ELIZABETH BERRIDGE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFirst published in 1967  \nThis edition published in 2023 by The British Library  \n96 Euston Road  \nLondon NW1 2DB Copyright © 1967 The Estate of Elizabeth Berridge Preface copyright © 2023 Alison Bailey Afterword copyright © 2023 Simon Thomas Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7123 5487 5  \ne-ISBN 978 0 7123 6860 5  \nText design and typesetting by JCS Publishing Services Ltd  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nThe 1960s Elizabeth Berridge Preface Publisher ’s Note  \nPART ONE  \nPART TWO  \nPART THREE Afterword  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThe 1960s   \n 1960: World population is above 3 billion for the first time.  \n 1963: The Ministry of Housing sets out mandatory requirements for council housing standards, compulsory from 1967, including minimum floor area, heating and a flushing toilet.  \n 1963: The ‘compact cassette’ is introduced by the Philips Corporation, marketed as a dictation recording device and eventually replacing reel-to-reel recorders for most domestic use.  \n 1964: A revision to the Married Women’s Property Act allows women to be legal owners of the money they earn and to inherit property. Prior to this revision, everything a married woman owned or earned belonged to her husband.  \n Throughout the 1960s, the average age at marriage in England and Wales slowly and steadily falls, from 28.3 for men and 25.3 for women in 1960, to 27.2 and 24.8 in 1969.  \n 1967: Sing Me Who You Are is published.  \n 1967: 193,300 council houses are completed in the UK, the highest number after the post-war peak of construction.  \n 1967: The Abortion Act legalises abortion in the UK for women up to 24 weeks pregnant, if two doctors agree that continuing the pregnancy will be harmful to the mother or baby.  \n 1967: The Forestry Act 1967 requires anybody felling a tree to apply for a felling licence.  \n 1968: The average weekly wage for a woman is £10, compared to £21 for a man.  \n There are approximately eight domestic cats per 100 people in the UK throughout the 1960s. The number of pet cats steadily rises to 16 per  \n100 people in the early 2000s, overtaking the number of pet dogs in the mid-1990s.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nElizabeth Berridge (1919–2009)   \nElizabeth Berridge was born in south London on 3 December 1919, the daughter of a land agent who specialised in administering large estates. As Harriet Harvey Wood noted in her Guardian obituary,‘she may have inherited something of his eye for property, for her descriptions of houses and localities, especially of the growth and development of the southern suburbs where she grew up and lived for large parts of her life’.  \nBerridge was educated in London and Geneva, and in 1940 married Reginald Moore, the founder of the literary magazine Modern Reading. They moved to Wales, where they raised their children, Lawrence and Karen. In 1945, Berridge’s first book was published – a slim novella called The Story of Stanley Brent. Over the next two decades she wrote several novels and many short stories, appearing in literary magazines including the Cornhill, New Writing and London Magazine, as well as a short stint working in publishing.  \nHer novels met with some success when they were originally published: 1964’s Across the Common won the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award, and other novels were translated into various languages and adapted for BBC radio dramas. She wrote several television plays, a children’s book called That Surprising Summer in 1972, and in 1974 edited the early diaries of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but didn’t publish any novels for adults after Sing Me Who You Are until the 1980s, perhaps spurred on by her 1960s novels being reprinted by Abacus. 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