The brilliant autobiography of the varied and productive life of a Sydney University history graduate who assisted Lord Beaverbrook with his memoirs 'Men of Power', Sir Earle Page with his political biography, and the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' in its founding years. She has also been an academic, a writer of landmark social histories of Australian science and a contributor to Australian science policy, and she has met controversy with spirit. The autobiography gives illuminating information about people and events in British politics and Australian academia.