Plateaux, Gateaux, Chateaux

The final volume covers her high school and college years in Wales and France.

Full of humor and delightful stories, it is also a charming look at life in post-war Britain.

Parnell is a faithful and witty recorder of a time when everything seemed to be changing after the austerity of the war years.

Together, Parnell's three volumes provide a nostalgic and bittersweet portrayal of a young Welsh girl becoming a young woman.