Miriam’s Silver Years is the sixth in a series of novels describing the life and family of Miriam Barker, née Baxter, a busy East London woman who was born in 1907.

This edition deals with the years 1948 to 1960 covering an intense period when rationing and coupons still applied, and the long shadow of the Second World War still hung over Britain.

Through the threads of Miriam and her three sisters, we see how they cope with their increasingly complicated lives: the introduction of self employment, marriages, births, deaths, moving house and the introduction of television as they embraced the second half of the twentieth century and the radical changes which followed World War Two.

Later as Miriam approaches the stimulating crucial period of the 1960s, a previously unknown family member shockingly makes himself known, she enjoys the holiday of a lifetime, the hub of her close family falls apart and she makes a final decision whether to stay in the East End or live out her years by the coast.

The Second World War and her time in Holloway Prison is now a distant memory. However, apart from the changes in her family, particularly as the decade of the, ’swinging sixties’ arrive, she retains the love of her loyal husband, Roy, and still enjoys her enduring friendship with Rafa.

Miriam is now a dutiful grandmother, an extraordinarily mature aunt of an ever increasingly large family, a servant of the community, and as a woman proudly moving from middle age into the remaining years of her life, a matriarchal force to be reckoned with.

Authors note: please be aware this was originally published as Miriam’s silver years part one and part two. This has now been combined into one novel: Miriam’s Silver Years.

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Miriam's Silver Years

ISBN: 978-1-291-31696-4

Published: February 2024

Print Length: 260 pages

Language: English