Sandra Savage

The Green Years Sandra Savage

It's 1962 and Elvis is King of Rock & Roll. Sweet sixteen and best pals, Maisie Green and Chrissie Dalton are ready to discover what the world (and particularly the boys in it) has to offer them. Working as Chocolate Packers in Keillers Sweet Factory in Dundee, Maisie harbors a secret ambition to better herself. She won't settle for the same lot as her co-workers. But what Maisie hasn't bargained on is just how tricky finding 'the one' actually is - the man who could sweep her off her feet and change her life forever. Nor is she prepared for the jealous people she meets as she makes her way up the social ladder. Chrissie, on the other hand, is quite content with her lot, until a sailor turns her life upside down and makes her long for a better life too - away from the local teddy boys and the greyness of the housing scheme where they live. Both girls have to jump over many hurdles in this romantic romp through the 'swinging sixties'. Their experiences of the world and the men they encounter - where two-timing and sexual tension rules - teaches them who to love and who not to trust. As the year ends on Hogmany, they are both faced with the biggest decision of their lives. Will they make the right choices and find their happy ending? Can an old head ever fit onto young shoulders? Will Hogmany find Maisie and Chrissie jiving happily into 1963 or drowning their sorrows?