With a large cast of characters, this first volume of autobiography traces a life from birth in pre-war Switzerland to May 1960.Ines and her brother grow up in a house where hard work is expected, morality leads the way and bad behaviour is punished. It is a place where parents want the best for their children and children want to please their parents. But it is also a house of laughter and music, of family loyalty, generosity, creativity and ambition.Read of the dreaded onion stew, the Nachtheuel, the pampered dog Vani, the uncles and aunts and cousins, friends and neighbours whose trials and tribulations all weave into the tapestry of a young girl's life as she grows up after the war and tries to work out her place in a wider and changing world.
