Late Born Child: I arrived in 1948, born to forty year old parents, a sister soon to be nineteen and a brother who turned fifteen two months after my ... my many missteps as I tried to catch up.
Late Born Child is a charming memoir of a Southern girlhood in the post-World War II years that was in some ways quite typical-and in others, decidedly not! Her parents were middle-aged when she arrived, her nearest sibling was in high school and soon she was the only child in the house, the apple of her father's eye and her mother's daily challenge.