ABSTRACT
As an addict to autobiography I welcome this book: it has value as good reading. As a clinician 1 note with relief that Sheila Stewart, this child of misfortune, found that the world gradually shaped her into a happy person. One can see in the story all the awful environmental conditions that persecute so many who are illegi - timate and who have good cause to complain, but for Sheila somehow the persecutions failed to persecute. Consequently the reader is not side-tracked into withers-wringing, and is free to glean truths from every little episode and from the sequence of events . For instance, the gradual development in SheHaof sex into a real in-love relationship and a marriage is highly instructive. Much depended on the exercise of a parental function , often harsh, offered by the matron of her church home; and there could scarcely be a better advertisement than this for a certain Church Society .
