This book comes across as an autobiography of a remarkable woman who discovers via an uncle the camera, and it is her life from then on. It includes the blackshirts marches in London, being a war correspondent, and then finally being a Vietnam war correspondent. She has lovers who help her on her way. It is a very descriptive book , and it really works. Her description of her married life as the wife of a laird is very good. I was gripped through the second half of the book.
FW: Although I couldn't empathise with the heroine, her emotions (or, lack of??) being extremely unclear to me, I found this book to be an interesting mixture of historical events/ likely happenings and fiction. Many sections blurred this distinction, and the photos, I felt, helped this intriguing fusion.
I did not, however, appreciate the comparative descriptions of the different men's "members"; this would normally have put me off a novel straightaway, but I persisted because it was a book club book!
I hadn't read any books before by this author and I might well be tempted to try another, as the book was, I felt, both well and differently written.
Marks out of 10? Probably 5 (esp for the for historical interest )
