My Ticket to Ride
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Itâs 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in a grim foster home in Cleveland when she falls suddenly, deeply in love âĻ with the Beatles. They and their music stir in her an ecstatic new sense of freedom. With a friend, she hatches a bold plan to escape their dreary lives and run away to London to meet the Fab Four.Â
On their own for the first timeâin âBeatlelandââthey explore a new city, a new culture, and a new life, visiting the hippest clubs of Soho, meeting some nice English boys, hitchhiking to Liverpool âĻÂ
But unbeknownst to them, the runaways have become international newsâand a hunt is on.
Adventure and newfound freedom end abruptly when Janice is apprehended by London police and hauled home to Cleveland and an unforgiving juvenile justice system. Warned by responsible adults to put it all behind her, she doesnât speak of her extraordinary adventure for more than fifty years.Â
In this memoir, she looks back with fresh insight on the heady early days of Beatlemania and an era in America when young women exercising some control over their lives presented a serious threat to adult society.
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Janice Mitchell is a retired federal investigator, a private investigator, an adjunct professor, and a lifelong Beatles fan. She worked high-profile capital, criminal, and civil cases in New York City and international investigations for Rolex, Gucci, Warner Bros., Levi Strauss, and other trademarks. She now lives in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
