Copper Lady

At the beginning of Jenny Hilton’s 34 years in the Metropolitan Police, women constituted less than 1% of the force. Her entertaining and insightful memoir highlights some of the major social changes over the past 60 years and the difficulties experienced by a woman in a man’s world.The book paints a vivid picture of London of the 1950s and 1960s, of changing attitudes to class and gender in socie...