A small blue softback book of 86 pages, 6 chapters, and a number of interesting interleaved illustrations, with a picture on the front cover of the author when first admitted as an infant to Dr Barnardo's Homes, and the following on the back cover: 'This is the eighth in a series of Barnardo Biographies published by Badgerwood Publications LLP.

Within a clearly established framework of a very personal gratitude to Dr Barnardo the author describes a country childhood, an institutional training, and a period in service, all with touching detail.

Her return to the village of her childhood to become a factory worker during wartime, and to enter married life from the home of her ever-loving foster mother is also sensitively told, and this becomes the start of her own family life, with all its subsequent joys and sorrows. As a grandmother she re-visits Barnardo's to discover her unwanted origins and to rejoice in the finding of the family from which she had been rejected. Her evensong of thanksgiving is a heartfelt tribute to the compassion of one man.

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