Shelley Thompson has over one hundred radio productions to her credit, while her stage work includes "The Memory of Water", "Love on Main", "Drinking Alone", and "Shakespeare Unplugged". Among her television appearances are "Red Eagle", "Drop the Dead Donkey", "EastEnders", and the lead in "Mike and Angelo". On film she has been seen in "When Innocence Is Lost" and "Just Like a Woman".
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?The main character is born in 1894. The book contains her memoir, so the action goes back and forth in time, including Emmeline's childhood, through World War One and World War Two and up to "present day," which is 1968-1969.