Despite being 'only the sister' Angela managed to avoid living in her sister's shadow as Margaret Forster in her obituary notice in The Independent wrote "...in spite of envying Daphne's success, Angela was not made bitter by it and the sisters remained devoted to each other."

She first wanted to be an actor and played Wendy for two seasons, including crashing whilst flying. But later she wanted to write and it was bad luck that the publication of her early novels coincided with Daphne's enormous success with Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. Altogether she published eleven books including two volumes of autobiography of which this is the first.

Born in 1904 into a famous theatrical family Angela's memoirs are a fascinating insight into a lost world of Edwardian glamour. Later in Cornwall she worked the land during the war--in between she travelled in Europe and met an extraordinary number of people. A life of infinite variety, lived to the full by a very gregarious woman.