Now You See Me: Lesbian Life Stories, ed. by Jane Traies

Older lesbians talk about their lives...   Just wonderful
 
Now You See Me draws on a unique new archive of life stories, recorded by Jane Traies, writer and oral historian. In their own words, women from across the UK recreate a time when being lesbian meant hiding your true identity – or paying the price for breaking society's rules. The personal is still political in this moving and inspiring book. 
 
'I went to a very nice Freudian psychiatrist who said, "I don't think there's much wrong 
with you, darling; I think your boyfriend's got a problem."' 
 
'We spent most of the night listening to Dusty Springfield and snogging each other's faces off.' 
 
'I'd seen her before and thought, "That looks nice." So I cycled very slowly and eventually she caught me up and asked me out for a drink.'
 
'I wish I knew if there was somebody like me here in the retirement houses. But you 
can't just go up and ask.'
 
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'A precious collection of personal, powerful, and heartfelt histories of previously undocumented lesbian lives.' ­­- Clare Summerskill