Margaret Lovatt-Santon was a precocious child who had a unique upbringing for a girl of her day. Born into privilege in the 40Õs, she shunned the scripted existence offered to girls by schools and society. Her eccentric parents supported her own eccentricity. Margaret and her friends scrambled freely up and down the Scarborough Bluffs in their back yard, in a world that was disappearing as rapidly as the precipice.
"Down the Bluffs" takes the reader back to (in some ways) a simpler time when upper middle class girls might dream of a future filled with servants and a husband, neighbours could be scandalized by a family's refusal to conform and children were allowed to hurt themselves,