Grandma's Gap YearsTravel abroad in the 1950s - what was it like? Why did you go? How did you get there? Who did you meet? Did it change your outlook? How did you cope without a credit card or mobile? Mary Steele has created a treasure-house of memories to delight her contemporaries and astonish the new generation. Her travel diaries of the late 1950s are fresh, funny and observant. They merge seamlessly with wry and witty present-day reflections on her younger self and the adventure of overseas travel. In Grandma’s Gap Year, Mary Steele revisits postwar Britain and Europe and discovers her own Australia in the process. This is time-travel at its best. |