Books by Jean Lucey Pratt, Simon Garfield

The descriptive subtitle is The romantic journals of Jean Lucey Pratt .  She was a British woman who started keeping a journal in 1925 at the age of fifteen, and continued until her death in 1986.  Usually books like this bore me after fifty pages (or less), but this one I am finding consistently entertaining.  Here is one bit from her cruise ship voyage at age 23: