When Barbara's husband deserts her, she uproots her family of four children to London, where she resumes her career as a doctor.
Written at the time of the launch of the National Health Service, and written by a practising GP, this presents an interesting picture of how a single parent who is also a professional woman copes with the prevailing ethos that a woman's place, and certainly a married woman's place, is in the home. 

    Contains an introduction by Rosemary Auchmuty on the 1950s –
“probably the most repressive decade of the twentieth century, a time of backlash against earlier feminist advances and women's enhanced freedom during the war.”