The lives of youth, the ones that suffered the First World War and the postwar period, has been rarely recounted with such depth, elegance, and accuracy. This book is about the life of the paper mill owner’s daughter who was struggling to emancipate herself with those of the young student from Oxford and with the suffering that she finds at the forefront during the war. Her passion for study and literature seems frivolous and she dreams of a better time in which she could be naïve.