A heart-warming, amusing and thought provoking true memoir. Beginning with her first memory aged three through to the golden retirement years of an 89 year old grandmother. The Depression in the thirties, a time of mass unemployment; making it necessary for her mother to seek help from the local Relief Office: only to be turned away in tears. This prime example of injustice: the oppression of the weak by the powerful, leaving a deep-seated scar on the four- year- old Doreen. The ongoing rise of Nazism in Germany: The long journey from Liverpool Street to Thetford, in Sept 1939. Taken to the open door of a farmhouse, which was to be home for Doreen and her sister for the next four years. The shock at the return to Liverpool Street, London in 1943; where everywhere was thick with smoke, steam and noise. Love, marriage, divorce and old age.This is a beautifully written chronicle of the life and fate of an ordinary working-class woman. Footprints in the sands of time.