Plate Spinner: A Memoir

Eileen Dight has written about her life with a frankness and immediacy that is seductive. 'I tried to write this book throughout my life,' she says, but every time the perspective was wrong. Now I know I needed to be seventy.' She lived in London as a small child during WWII and the blitz. She describes two marriages, five sons, a dozen grandchildren, twelve house moves, living in four different countries, with an enquiring mind and always an eye on the future. Bipolarity adds flavour to the dish. She writes about being hospitalized in a way that makes those dreadful experiences accessible to all. A tender heart enhances her humanity. Not a distinguished life, but often an intense one. People often told her, 'You should write a book,' so she did. Now readers say 'That was uplifting!'