Memories of a family before during and at the end of the Second World War. These handwritten notes were found after the writer's illness and death. She writes with style and rare fluidity about the joys and heartbreaks of her era, as seen from a young woman's eyes. Contained here are memories she had, memories unspoken of, but which were clearly seared into her consciousness. It will leave you marveling at the human spirit, and the character and grace exhibited in the darkest of times.