How do you live your life as an illegitimate child in the 1950s and 1960s within the confines of a small Yorkshire mining village?
This tale, warts and all, wonderfully captures how Carol's mother's lack of life choices influenced her own perception of the world as the years passed.
A self critical, no nonsense insight peers into her family's social history but does not overshadow the joy she managed to experience as a child.