{"product_id":"these-purple-years-amelia-fielden-9781760415594","title":"These Purple Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eA long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society, founded in the USA in 1997 as 'the place where there is fun over fifty'. This society takes for its motto, so to speak, a poem called 'Warning', by the UK poet Jenny Joseph (1932-). The first verse of 'Warning' begins thus: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I am an old woman I shall wear purple\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... And make up for the sobriety of my youth!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nice synchronicity between East and West, isn't it? Loving the colour purple, I quite often wear it, not just to Red Hat Society functions. I was born in 1941, and most of the tanka in this book have been written and published during my 'purple years'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amelia Fielden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1760415596\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781760415594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ginninderra Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.67d","brand":"Amelia Fielden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486004162815,"sku":"9781760415594","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f022fac7-56b1-4b12-acfd-b3ff802ad589.jpg?v=1778053025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/these-purple-years-amelia-fielden-9781760415594","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}