This is the fictionalized story of Noel Streatfeild’s own childhood and youth, told with all the humour, insight and perceptiveness which has ensured her place today as an ever-popular author. As Vicky, the middle child in a clergyman’s large family, Noel reveals herself as an awkward child, a trouble-maker at home and at school, but with the promise to come of a great talent. This is a fascinating story of a strict vicarage upbringing – and an evocative picture of an age and pattern of life which vanished forever with the coming of the first World War.