AFTER giving up on My L.A. I picked up Monica Dickens’s My Turn To Make The Tea, her semi-autobiographical account of working as a junior reporter on a provincial paper in the late 1940s/early 50s. The book is pretty lightweight (I got through it in a night) and very witty and engaging.

There’s no real plot but that doesn’t matter as the book’s entertaining enough. Dickens’ character Poppy describes the day-to-day life of being the only female reporter on the Downingham Post, the frustrations and chauvinism she experiences as she tries to add some sparkle to the deadly dull pages, and the […]