My Turn to Make the Tea

Being a journalist on a local weekly paper is not at all glamorous. Covering stories about local events, such as gymkhanas in the rain on a Saturday afternoon, visiting families who have lost a loved one, always seeming to be the one expected to make the tea because you are female and trying to introduce a fresh approach to an editor who has been doing the same thing for years and doesn't want to change could be extremely frustrating but the novelty of being a journalist means hope springs eternal.

Couple this with the experiences of living in a boarding house with a quirky variety of characters, it is a story to read and reread.

This book portrays days gone by in a way that you feel as though you lived through them. The writing is very engaging and shows the romantic and not so romantic things.