The extraordinary and fascinating diaries of a young aristocratic wife who followed her husband to the Middle East in World War 2.
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HERMIONE: AFTER 'TO WAR WITH WHITAKER'
Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, takes us through the lean days following WW11, becoming a mother and her colonial life in the 50's. It continues through the swinging sixties and the period of the baby boomers. Lastly it relates her fight to promote worldwide literacy, ending with old age and all that it brings.
THE UGLY ONE
The author recounts her early life between the wars. A life of great privilege but also tragedy as she copes with her parents' financial problems, illness, divorce and the death of her brother.