Books set in the 1970s

[EuniceLopril]

Any recommendations for novels set in the 70s? Interested particularly in family life and subjects written from YA perspective/for YA market.

The Scarecrows by Robert Westall?

The Haunting by Margaret Mahy?

Handles by Jan Mark?

Granny Was A Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty?

Daisy Jones and The Six

The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe is about teenagers in 1970s Birmingham.
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon is about children in 1976.
Anita and Me by Meera Syal is a novel about a girl not like the author growing up in the Black Country in the 70s.

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780060203924/Darling-Villain-Lynne-Reid-Banks-0060203927/plp
Written in the 70s. Excellent book. Love Lynne Reid Banks books - most famous for the L Shaped Room trilogy.

Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard. There are several sequels.

Just was going to recommend this. The Twelfth Day of July is the first in the series set at the start of The Troubles.

I was just going to post that one!

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell is a good read. Set during the summer of 1976

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy set in NI in 1970s. Background of the troubles but lots of domestic and family detail if that's what you're looking for

Alex Cottons series of books based on her own family life starts late 60s and goes up to late 70s as far as I recall. Laugh out loud funny and evocative.

The Cement Garden by Ian Mcewan is what you need. The heat radiates off the page!

Joining for recommendations.

Once, in a House on Fire - Andea Ashworth

About 3 sisters growing up in Manchester in the 1970s, dealing with poverty and abuse and various step fathers, and how the author (I think she's the eldest) got out. Sounds grim, but it is beautifully written.

Jubilee by Shelley Harris

The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

Barbara Vine's A Fatal Inversion- set in the long hot summer of 1976

Some of Claire Chambers, eg Learning to Swim

Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell, also set then.

A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet, written in 1969; although I wouldn't call the Mansons' life 'family life (altho superficially it is at the start). I always wondered if the author chose that name deliberately. As the novels progress there's not one pleasant character.

Another vote for The Rotters Club - great book.

Yes, I like the Bouquet books precisely because the characters are so awful.

I loved the Bouquet books as well.

The Queen of Bloody Everything is excellent.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Bloody-Everything-Joanna-Nadin-ebook/dp/B075CSSD9G/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=11JKZXGDU455S&keywords=queen+of+bloody+everything&qid=1694029137&sprefix=queen+of+bloody+%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1

Ancient Greek tragedy played out in 70s suburbia is about the best description I can come up with.

There was a huge amount of American teen books written in the 70s - Judy Blume, Paula Danziger, Lois Duncan, Paul Zindel, Caroline B Cooney (or possibly she was more 80s?).

The "Maggie" series of books by Joan Lingard