Amazingly Astonishing Story

By turns laugh out loud funny and deeply sad, ''The Amazingly Astonishing Story'' is Lucy Gannon''s childhood memoir, a frank and surprising look into a child''s tumultuous mind. A soldier''s daughter, Lucy lived in many places but after the death of her mother when Lucy was six, she was lodged with relatives in Lancashire, taken in only because the Army paid an allowance for her care. Escape  bec...