A literary autobiography, of a woman against whom the cards were stacked. The story of personal honesty and courage. Badly equipped with a frail body, the author has been forced to make her own way and earn a living for herself and her son. Australia -- the start of her writing -- its slow development -- her world travels -- her troubles with publishers, men and money, all told in calm retrospect, spiced with a joy in living, after the fight to live. Interesting, with certain inspirational overtones.