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A stand-alone novella which explores the differences between two generations of women.

When fourteen-year-old Laura Curtly announced that she wanted to become a policewoman, her parents dismissed the idea as an unsuitable occupation for a young middle-class woman in 1930s England. At best, Laura could hope for a short period of employment as a secretary before marriage and children to a promising young man. But Laura is interested in people and eventually comes up with a new plan.

Under the pretence of creative writing studies, Laura embarks on a correspondence course to become a journalist. Her final project, a social realism piece, leads her to conduct a series of interviews with an acquaintance of a friend of her mother's, a Mrs Harriet Hawkins. These interviews prompt Laura to question not only her parent's attitudes, but also her own, and her potential future happiness.

This intriguing novella chronicles the changing attitudes and industrial progress over the course of the early twentieth century from the perspective of two very different women.