All Comments on 'The Age Of Innocence'

Sorry for not being the wordsmith of my youth, but this was my general impression as I started reading page three of your work. Not that my expressed take began at that point it simply came as an un-requested thought while reading. I got out of the story at paragraph three and came back because writers tag their ending with a request we readers vote on the work so I now try and finish anything I open.

What a lovely story. I truly enjoyed reading it. 5 stars.

this is a well written story, it just goes to show you that there can still be true love at first sight and I though that her finding her Aunt and her girlfriend was a nice touvh

I loved the early sociological detail. I am around the same age as you and from the UK, too.

Later it got somewhat confusing in places.

There is a great story in there struggling for clarity. An editor would probably help clarify and get rid of the many mistakes.

Hope you can build on this start.

Well done a good story simply written. I too am of that era. I was bright yet I failed my 11+ exam. You never stated if you knew why you failed? I was failed because my headmaster didn't like me. He was a bigot and a hypocrit. I knew him for what he was, a pious man yet he was having an affair with miss Muir, one of the teachers. I went to a good secondary school where I could sit both GCE 's and CSE's and I agree that the latter was considered inferior and hardly recognised.

You never brought music into your story which was so important to the younger generation at the time. Nevertheless 5* from me.

I also was born in the 50s and grew up in the 60s in a small English village, was the youngest child of a large Irish family, parents split so just mum and my sisters, very poor, jumble sale clothes, blackjacks and fruit salads. We lived on a caravan site and were probably one of, if not the poorest family in the village. Some people were kind, most were not. It was fascinating to see the history of someone who lived a very similar early life.

Thanks for the memories!

Many thanks for your comments as all appreaciated. I hope to actually add some love stories I have just written (Cinders & My ideas of heaven).

Please forgive any grammatical mistakes as my word processor is playing up along with windows. I have quite a few romance novels awaiting for me to do a final edit once I can transfer them to Microsoft word when I get windows working properly. The reason I add this point is that quite a few novels I had written long ago for my own amusement I have revamped and hope to have them published under the title of The Girls of 55. Each novel has links to the others but is mainly the life of girls born in the mid 50s who went to some of the same schools.

Re: 11+. I never knew why I failed as I thought I did well although the events of that time did affect me as there is another story that runs parallel and involves an angel in 1962 who was there until I was 15. When I was feeling low I retreated into a warm shell where I was not alone. It is a strange sensation when suddenly you go to retreat and find it no longer there. The story is linked to events in 2010 where strangely I met someone that linked back to when I was 15 and my angel. She had her scars like me as did two other friends I met in 2010. It is a really weird story where my slightly psychic abilities went totally haywire and I only had to open an e-mail and know if the sender was feeling sad or whatever and that was mild to the rest of what happened. I am still not sure whether to publish it or not.