A KILKHAMPTON-based author is looking forward to seeing her latest book hit the shelves.

Yvonne Chidley’s new book is due to go on sale this week. Her first book, titled Rhubarb Wine and Binder Twine, told of her idyllic childhood on a farm in North Cornwall in the 1950s. Her second book, titled Saga of the Sixties, is the next chapter of her life story. Again, set in North Cornwall, it gives an in-depth look at life during the ‘swinging sixties’ through her teenage eyes.

It was a decade of great change. The country had come through the war and the austere 1950s were over. Man walked on the moon, colour television became available, a new car — the Mini — rolled off the production line, and there were great advances in technology.

The young became the leaders of fashion and The Beatles topped the charts. The young generation of that era simply had ‘the time of their lives’.

Yvonne, a true Cornish maid, has lived in the area all her life. She describes herself as a grey-haired grandmother with many memories of that exciting decade. Now retired from a long career in the hospitality trade, she lives in Kilkhampton, near Bude.

Saga of the Sixties will be available from November 24 (tomorrow) at Spencer Thorn Bookshop in Bude, Wainhouse Country Stores and the Spar shop in Kilkhampton.