Lives of Girls and Women

Del Jordan’s scrapbook of memories records a young girl changing from childhood to adolescence.

Through the women and men she encounters – her mother courageously selling encyclopaedias, gaining her freedom almost imperceptibly; her Aunts Elspeth and Grace, two lives devoted to Uncle Craig; Garnet, her first bitter sweet taste of love; and best friend Naomi relentlessly pursuing marriage – Del becomes aware of her own potential and the excitement of an unknown independence…