What a story. Born in Argentina of Irish parents and not expected to live. Returns to England after her father dies. Mother becomes a stewardess on Atlantic liners, and the girls grow up in a convent. Violet in turn becomes a stewardess, on the Olympic then on the Titanic. In WW1 she becomes a VAD and is sunk again, this time off the Greek coast in the Brittanic. She ends her working life stewardessing on 'round the world' cruises in the 1920s and 1930s. In fact, the Titanic chapters are the least of this memoir. They show the two worlds of the Edwardian and 20s period - great wealth and splendour, and hard work and thrift. They show how many women were forced to earn a living - and often support a family - any way they could. But they also show the depth of human spirit, and family togetherness. A remarkable story, told almost matter-of-fact, that sheds new light on the first part of the Twentieth Century.