Jack Laurence

ML set sail from Canada with her husband for England, en route for Africa.

After completing her first draft ML resisted the advice of her husband to substitute third- for first-person narrative and a straightforward chronological sequence for the vagaries of Hagar's intermittent present consciousness and her remembered past...

Margaret Wemyss , a recent graduate, married Jack Laurence , a fellow-student whose subject was engineering. He was also a war veteran, having been a mechanic with the RAF .