In her new book Hopscotch and Handbags – The Essential Guide to Being a Girl, Guardian columnist Lucy Mangan reflects on growing up in the seventies and eighties. Just what are the long term psychological repercussions of making pom-poms and being forced to spend your lunch-times French knitting, jumping through French elastic and sharing your hula-hoops?
Hopscotch & Handbags: The Essential Guide to Being a Girl by Lucy Mangan is published by Hodder Headline , ISBN 978-0-7553-1647-2.