This is a personal account of a childhood spent in London and the country in the twenties and thirties The book illustrates the difficulties and joys of family and business life through the eyes of a growing girl The weekly horror of washday is vividly described, as is the annual spring clean of the house to get rid of the depredations of a winter's coal fires There was still time though to go visiting by pony and trap, to sample the delights of the sweet-shop, to learn to ride and to fall in love