Miriam's Silver Years

De: Molly Cutpurse

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In the years after WWII, Miriam faces family upheavals, new beginnings, and the dawn of the swinging sixties in this moving continuation of her life story.
The war is over, but the battles of family life, love, and change are just beginning.

By 1948, Miriam Barker (née Baxter) has come through war, hardship, and personal upheaval with humour, resilience, and quiet strength. But peace brings its own challenges. Britain is still rationing, and the East End is a place in flux—full of tight-knit communities and uncertain futures.

As her children grow and her sisters’ lives take surprising turns, Miriam guides her ever-expanding family through births, deaths, marriages, and the slow but certain march of modern life. Self-employment brings new pressures. Television flickers into homes. A long-lost relative steps out of the shadows. And as the 1960s approach, Miriam faces a question that could reshape everything: will she remain in the East End that shaped her, or take a leap toward the coast and something entirely new?

With her husband Roy at her side and loyal friend Rafa still part of her life, Miriam steps into her silver years not as a survivor, but as a matriarch—a woman grounded in duty, strengthened by love, and always, quietly remarkable.
Miriam’s Silver Years is the sixth in a series of novels describing the life and family of Miriam Barker, née Baxter.