CELIA BIRTWELL DESIGNS NEW BOOK COVER FOR FRANTIC NOVEL
Added: (Wed Jun 02 2010)
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The Mad Mad Seventies; the designer Celia Birtwell designs a new book cover for Frances Lynn's debut novel, which visits a time warp in the early '70s. “Frantic” ruthlessly chronicles the decline of a wayward girl staggering into the drug-infested circles in San Francisco and London, and her struggle to survive. "Frantic" (ISBN 13 978-0955367281). Paperback. 264 pp 22.4 x 15.2x1.8cm. £8.99. Fiction. Eiworth Publishing.
London, UK (Pressbox) June 1, 2010 –- Fancy a ride in a time machine? Want to visit a time warp in the early 70's? Buy Frances Lynn's debut novel "Frantic," a no-holds barred but fictionalised exposé about the mad, mad 70's, when drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll reigned supreme, and tomorrow was a never-never land. It's a nostalgia trip for those who remember. A revelation for all who were born too late to live through those world-shaking years the way 70's survivors did.
Author Frances Lynn first got the idea for "Frantic" in 1970, while on holiday in San Francisco.
She ran onto the stage during The Cockettes’ three-hour Halloween extravaganza, ‘Les Ghouls’ at the Palace Theatre, North Beach.
Frances Lynn had never seen anything like the flamboyant ‘gender-bender’ repertory theatre group before. The Cockettes pioneered the change of the psychedelic '60s into the gay '70s.
Back in London, Frances Lynn hung out in the basement of David Hockney’s House in Notting Hill Gate. ‘Everybody who was anybody’ was there, the best nightclub in town.
Fashion designer Ossie Clark read out aloud from his diaries, published posthumously. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, singer Marianne Faithful, Manolo Blahnik, the international shoe designer, members of the British aristocracy, top fashion models and the cream of the international art world were visitors.
Frances Lynn showed Pete Townshend of The Who her unfinished manuscript of "Frantic." "I recognise everybody in the book," he said. The author heeded his criticism and spent the next three decades re-writing the book. The book was first published by Eiworth Publishing in 2006. "Frantic" has now been republished by Eiworth with a new unique book cover designed by Celia Birtwell.
Frances Lynn’s style of writing is unique. Her tale of a wayward girl staggering into the drug-infested circles in San Francisco and London and her struggle to survive is tragic, but has a happy ending.
"It’s a good read," says Curt Eiworth, the book's punisher. "It’s the definitive book about the early Seventies," says a reader who survived those crazy times.
“Frantic” (ISBN-13: 978-0-9553672-8-1), paperback, 264pp, 22.4 x 15.2x1.8cm. £8.99p. Printed on demand. Available from all online book stores.