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Gin Glorious Gin
Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London | Olivia Williams
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Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through the underbelly of the Georgian city via the Gin Craze, detouring through the Empire (with a G&T in hand), to the emergence of cocktail bars in the West End, the story is brought right up to date with the resurgence of class in a glass - the Ginnaissance. As gin has crossed paths with Londoners of all classes and professions over the past three hundred years it has become shorthand for metropolitan glamour and alcoholic squalor in equal measure. In and out of both legality and popularity, gin is a drink that has seen it all. Gin Glorious Gin is quirky, informative, full of famous faces - from Dickens to Churchill, Hogarth to Dr Johnson - and introduces many previously unknown Londoners, hidden from history, who have shaped the city and its signature drink.
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Being slightly irreverent with today‘s theme (cos #MothersDay was back in March and I treated my mum the best way I could in these socially distanced times by getting her a book e-voucher!), this tells #AMothersStory with a difference - the story of Mother‘s Ruin.

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CarolynM 👏😂 4y
OriginalCyn620 Love the cover! 4y
Eggs Looks fun 🍋🍸 4y
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