As a leading international civil servant, Margaret Anstee has lived with the great themes of postwar history: poverty, conflict and the unending difficulty of limiting either. But she also writes of romance and travel, friendship and daily incident even about making herself a ballgown out of a parachute and dancing the night away! Onora ONeill, Principal, Newnham College, CambridgeAn intelligent and courageous human being, Dame Margaret Anstee is also a wonderful writer. She vividly presents for us the adventures she has experienced, the battles she has won and lost, and the fascinating people she has encountered along the way. Gerald J. Bender, Professor (and former Director), School of International Relations, University of Southern California, and former President of the African Studies Association What a life! She strode and occasionally stumbled across Development, the UN and the men in her life with a style, intelligence and curiosity reminiscent of those extraordinary Victori