In Hanmer, an enclave of Flintshire, North Wales, through the 1940s and 1950s; first with her grandmother and grandfather who 'had a scar down his hollow cheek ... which Grandma had done'. To a little further on, 'I had acquired from Grandpa (bad blood) vanity, ambition and discontent along with literacy. I didn't know my place.' And off she goes to find it, her inherited condition notwithstanding.
Anthony Thwaite's copy with a signed card to him from Lorna Sage laid in, 'thanks so much for that perceptive and generous review – I'm very grateful, and very pleased, since I know you're hard to please'.
Whitbread Biography Award in 2001, a week before the author died at the age of fifty-seven.
