In this sequel to Catherine Cookson's collection of essays and poems, Let Me Make Myself Plain, she offers a further selection of thoughts, recollections and observations on life - and death - together with more of the poems she prefers to describe as prose on short lines. She reveals some of the qualities that allow her to draw upon the inner strength she needs to continue the battle for life - a life that has, for the last 50 years, given readers pleasure through the medium of her novels, each inspired by the harsh nature of her early years.