A 10th annniversary repackaged edition from the highly regarded literary critic and academic. Follows her story from childhood in the Welsh borders to the brink of the 1960s. Women need this kind of book but perhaps men need it more, to give the sort of understanding which we still lack of how girls actually grow up' Margaret Forster From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.
