Based on a short memoir by the talented, acid-tongued journalist Lynn Barber (first published in Granta magazine), the movie is set in 1962, when England was gradually emerging from postwar austerities and the fabled antics of swinging London were just getting under way.

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That was in 1963, at a time when the classical-music establishment was still in thrall to the postwar professoriate of Austro-German composers and their foreign epigones who believed that the future of music lay not with traditional harmony but with Schoenberg-style serialism.

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This is under the 73% ratio in the early postwar years when interest rates remained low.

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