In this creative biography, told as a series of short stories, Aggie O'Hara passionately shares her journey that begins in the "Dirty Thirties." Her father travels far from home in search of work, while her distraught and pregnant mother blames firstborn Aggie for all her woes and the three children that followed. But both her Scottish granny-a mirror image of Aggie with the same blond hair and blue eyes-and her father love her and help her develop the will to survive and thrive. Aggie falls madly in love-at 16-with a dark, handsome stranger that she marries at 21, while working as a "Rosie...

Explores the personal dynamic between C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot and their misgivings about taking on the role of Christian apologist during the height of the London blitz. Brown goes on to examine the congruency in their depictions of the nature of Christ, of conversion, and of angelic beings, and highlights the similarity in their views of war and suffering.