Women who get away

Fraulein Maria was quite right to recommend the von Trapp children to ‘begin at the very beginning, a very good place to start’. I made the mistake of opening this book at random, only to find I was being advised to ‘find a 5-foot-in-diameter round cylinder to use as the base of the beehive. Cut openings on either side for the bees to come in and out. Take chicken wire...’. I might have given up there and then if I’d had no review to write!

Jennifer Watkins