Book set in 70s/80s/90s

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Picking a book club book. Would like to read a fiction book set in the 70s/80s/90s - think Catlin Moran, Jenny Eclair, etc. Any recommendations?

It's sobering that I grew up believing that universities were bastions of free speech and thought. Reading The History Man was one of my first indications that they aren't. Just as relevant today as it was then.

Came on to suggest this, really enjoyed it

The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon !970s

Margaret Drabble is the queen of 70s literature.

Lynne Reid Banks

Deborah Moggach (her older books like Stolen, Porky, You Must Be Sisters etc)

Margaret Foster

Anita Brookner

William Trevor

Muriel Sparks

John Mortimer

Joanna Trollope

Monica Dickens

(I second the poster who mentioned Joanna Nadim's Queen of Bloody Everything. It's brilliant)

Forgot to mention Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart. written recently but set in 70s/80s Glasgow.

A book I believe perfectly captures the 70s/80s of Manchester is not actually a novel but a beautifully written autobiography is Once In A House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth. I should probably warn that it does deal with domestic abuse, but it does give a very evocative sense of the era.

@BonzoDogDooDahBand I was just about to suggest Monica Dickens. She cropped into my mind lately, for some reason. I'd like to have a re-read.

Just remembered another book set in the 70s, which evokes the time period very well.A beautiful book, it's called Perfect by Rachel Joyce (the one who wrote the Harold Fry books).

The first 2 or 3 Adrian Mole diaries are fictitious social documentary of the 1980s.

Once In A House On Fire - Andrea Ashworth

Brilliantly written, albeit uncomfortable at times, memoir of a 1970s childhood in working class Manchester.

A few books that I've read and enjoyed from those periods:

• Anita and Me by Meera Syal
• Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran Hill
• My Name is Leon by Kit De Waal

I’d really recommend All My Mothers by Joanna Glen. I think it starts in the 70s and finishes in the 90s. A lot of it set in Spain which is nice in these gloomier months!

I had forgotten Anita and Me! Lovely book.

Best 80's tastic book ever!!

Jackie Collins - Chances

Not very pc today but a cracking read!

The Jonathan Coe books What a Carve Up! And the Rotters Club.

Both really excellent and fabulously written. First sone is set the 80's and the second in the 1970s.

Also, for fun, try the Adrian Mole books. Hilarious and takes you through the 80s and 90s as he grows up.

Bridget Jones is 90s too.

Jane Smiley - Duplicate Keys. New York, 1980. Woman discovers the bodies of two of her friends, murdered. Has to re-evaluate her friendships.

This is brilliant- thank you everyone!

The Rotters Club by Jonathon Coe

A little niche, but Douglas Coupland's Microserfs is a time capsule of the early 90s tech boom.

Just picked up a copy of Lisa Jewell's The Truth About Melody Browne. It is saturated with 70s and early 80s nostalgia.