This is a collection of vignettes and photos of the author's mother and her two sisters, and their childhood years growing up in Harlech, Wales. Rather than a chronological story, the author clusters the anecdotes by subject -- schooldays, the beach, golf, the English in Harlech, life in service, etc. He ends the book with short biographies of the boys from the village who served in WWI.

During the Edwardian period, Harlech was a popular vacation spot with some upper class English families, including Robert Graves and Denys Finch-Hatton (of Out of Africa and West with the Night fame). They were drawn to the village by the beach and Royal St David's Golf Club. I found the contrast between their lives and the lives of the poor townspeople to be most interesting.

I think this book is an important piece of documentation of an era, and recommend it to anyone interested in social history. ( )