Publisher's Synopsis
The aspirations of most young women in the 1950s stretched no further than acquiring a husband, house and children. Some of us though were questioning this – "surely there has to be more to life than this?" Impulsive, naive, with a vivid imagination fuelled by books and films, myself and the like-minded set out for New Zealand in 1954. However, A Fantasy Ago not only recounts the adventures I enjoyed during my two years plus stay, it is also a social document, reflecting pre-pill attitudes of the era, which, to some degree, we still observed and led to marriage becoming inevitable.
