Thank you for recommending it. It's one of those rare books that speaks on so many levels, and I suspect that the next time I read it - for it is one of those books that one reads more than once - I will see other levels, references I missed this time through, new parallels to explore, other truths to consider.

I'm just starting to realise how remarkable a woman Mitchison was, and the continuation of my quest is to locate more of her books, and to read her autobiographical writings.