Actually this is a collection of excerpts of Turner's diaries with introduction and discussion by Turner's granddaughter Sybil. The whole thing is kind of flat and dull and many of the excerpts are repetitive details of Ethel's shopping expeditions and daily trivia. There are of course gems of information about when Ethel met various other authors but they are few and far between. i think perhaps if the material was in a publisher's hands the resulting book would have been far different. I'm not finished yet but feel very let down by the overall atmosphere of the editing - it is toned very much like a family history with no analysis at all.