White Boots and Mini Skirts

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After having a lot of success with her first autobiography ` Bombsites and Lollipops', Jacky decides to write another book about the next part of her life. `White Boots and Mini Skirts' starts off in the mid 1960s when Jacky is a young woman living and working in trendy London. She was there at the start of the swinging 60`s and she was enjoying life as a single young woman. Jacky had left home after finding a flat which she shared with three other young women. Although she was having a great time socially, she was struggling to fit in while at her new home. She admits that she was a spoiled only child who had everything done for her by her mother while living at home. So when she left home, she found flat sharing difficult because she had to learn how to cook, clean and wash her own clothes. By the middle of this book, we have reached 1970 and Jacky is still living the high life. Although she is now a grown woman in her middle twenties she is still a party animal. She has had several romantic encounters but she has not taken this side of her life very seriously. During the 1950 and 1960s, young women were expected to leave school, find a job , find a `nice young man' and settle down , get married and have children. But none of this was for Jacky , she was enjoying a sort of extended youth being carefree and single. She was not ambitious in her work and just took jobs for granted because there were plenty of jobs about in those days. Jacky was very influenced by the people around her both at work and in her social life and often these would overlap. After a failed affair with a journalist, Jacky decides that she would like a job in the media, so she get s a job in Fleet Street. Here she sees a different side to newspapers and the people who work on them. With many liquid lunches in the nearest pub Jacky becomes a typical 1970`s pub girl. In the pub with her workmates during the day and out with friends in the evening. This side of her was a bit ironic when a few years earlier she turned against her dad because he spent too much time in the pub. Jacky did keep in touch with her parents even though she detested their home and their lifestyle. They were there for her when she got into financial trouble and had to move back home until she got back on her feet. At the end of the book Jacky makes a life changing decision and starts on an adventure which will change her way of life for the future.