This volume collects Dayus' four books of autobiography. In it she recalls her Edwardian childhood, growing up in the slums of Birmingham, her adolescence as a munitions worker during World War I, early widowhood and the Depression, which forced her to give up her children.
Kathleen Dayus revisits her childhood and young adult life before marriage, bringing to life the people and places her readers have come to know from her earlier volumes of autobiography. Here are stories of her schooldays; her first working experiences; her sister Lisa's theft of money her mother was sending to the Front; and experiences with boyfriends and dirty old men. All are told in the fresh and unsentimental prose for which Dayus is renowned.