Originally published in 2014, under the name 99 Balls Pond The Story of The Exploding Galaxy, this memoir is one of very few accounts by the women who witnessed London’s sixties counterculture. The English hippie movement has been largely seen through the prism of male ambitions and male memories. In this book Drower evokes the spirit of the time, with all its innocence, its hopes for the world, its contradictions and its glaring hypocrisies.
This story of the flower children is relevant to those studying art history, the sixties counterculture, the emergence of feminism, cultural studies or anthropology.