One Woman's Year is witty, wide-ranging, useful and endearing. The 'most liked moment' in August is 'Being the Last down to Breakfast on Holiday': "To lie there hearing everybody else banging on the bathroom door and opening and shutting wardrobes, and to watch the sun growing stronger over the hill". Perhaps with a view like this: Bedroom Window (undated, Royal Watercolour Society) by Percy Jowett (1892-1955).