THE OCTOGENARIAN STRIKES AGAIN...

Not many people would wait until their 80s to write a book—yet alone two. But fresh from her first success with 'From the Ends of the Earth' (Bene Factum 2004), a widely acclaimed book about plant collectors and the rare plants in her Cornish garden, Christian Lamb has just surprised us all again. 'This time, she has given us 'I Only Joined for the Hat', a wonderfully evocative memoir offering a first-hand account of what life was truly like for the World War II Wrens, and its pages reveal that Christian has lost nothing of her sense of humour over the years ... let alone her extraordinardinary memory.

Illustrated throughout, and with a Foreword by the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, here is a book as unusual as its redoubtable author.