On Tour: An Autobiographical Novel of the 1920s

"For Victoria Strangeway, the rebel in A Vicarage Family, the stage was a magnet, glowing with glamour and excitement. Bursting from the confines of the vicarage, Vicky rushed off to London to study dramatics at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, only to find that she was not a particularly good student.

Her return visits to her family at the vicarage were depressing, for she found they had forgotten her all too soon and were getting along wonderfully well without her. Struggling to make ends meet in London, she tried modeling clothes, but often went to bed hungry.

When the opportunity to tour with an acting company in South Africa and Australia presented itself, she jumped at it, feeling this was her big chance."