Mary Abbotts early life was, as the author says, fraught with all sorts of disadvantages, which she laughed off cheerfully. A baby boomer from working-class Lancaster, Mary was born different: she was blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other. In the early 1950s, aged just four, she was packed off to a special boarding school in Devon.
Her resilience and good humour, as she progressed from school to school, forming friendships, getting into scrapes, discovering boys and reaching out into the world of work, are recorded here in her own pithy words. How she survived both a painful...
Mary Abbotts early life was, as the author says, fraught with all sorts of disadvantages, which she laughed off cheerfully. A baby boomer from working...
Mary Abbot's early life was, as the author says, fraught with all sorts of disadvantages, which she laugh off cheerfully. A baby boomer from working-class Lancaster, Mary was born different: she was blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other. In the early 1950s, aged just four, she was packed off to a special boarding school in Devon.
Her resilience and good humour, as she progressed from school to school, forming friendships, getting into scrapes, discovering boys and reaching out into the world of work, are recorded here in her own pithy words. How she survived both a painful...
Mary Abbot's early life was, as the author says, fraught with all sorts of disadvantages, which she laugh off cheerfully. A baby boomer from working-c...
