The Tale of a Hip

The Tale of a Hip is an account of the author's 80-year life to date through a period of huge social change during which technology has taken over from nature. It is the story of true love lasting six decades despite the fact that physical aspects of the relationship were less good than they might have been due to an unsuspected structural problem that only came to light when Pamela and her husband John took up dancing in their 40s. The mystery of Pamela's shifting bones is unravelled piece by piece from art-influenced early years in Yorkshire through the excitement and romance of working in a burgeoning post-war London to marriage and later to obsession with dancing resulting in back and hip issues for many years.