A book on the question "does a woman have to choose between career and family?" It features interviews with 20 achieving women, all with three or more children, married for at least 25 years, with full-time careers. The women include Elizabeth Longford, Mary Warnock, Fay Weldon, Shirley Hughes, Margaret Forster, Druscilla Beyfus and Mavis Nicholson. In hardback the book was greeted with praise: "Excellent" - Katherine Whitehorn; "totally fascinating" - Antonia Fraser. Valerie Grove was a well-known journalist and feature writer with the "Evening Standard" and is now a regular columnist with "The Sunday Times". She is the author of "Where I Was Young: Memories of London Childhoods".
- ISBN10 0701208260
- ISBN13 9780701208264
- Publish Date 10 October 1988 (first published 3 September 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 304
- Language English