Funny How Things Turn Out

Muriel Newmarch was born in North London in 1903. She died in 2009, aged 106, in a care home in Sussex. Judith Bruce is her daughter, and Funny How Things Turn Out- part biography, part memoir - tells the story of both her mother and herself, which in turn traces the unprecedented changes to women''s lives during the 20th Century.

The first half of the book chronicles Muriel''s world through the Z...