A biography and an account of an age. The life-story of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), prolific novelist, autobiographer, and political activist, spans almost the whole of the twentieth century. This Yorkshirewoman, born in Whitby, torn throughout her life between the demands of family life and her ambitions for a writing career, gained in her time international recognition for her writing and for her wartime work as President of PEN, fighting for the values of freedom and social justice - for a new world after the war - while rescuing refugees from Nazi Europe and British internment camps. Through her writing, Jameson turned her own experience into the mirror of a generation that lived through two World Wars and the Cold War, the rise and fall of socialist dreams for a better world, and the slow realisation of the European horizon of Britain’s heritage and its future.