Jennifer Hart has spent a lifetime shunning conventional morality and pursuing her love of the rational and of justice. This lead her to break away from her liberal past becoming in turn a socialist, and later, a communist. a successful civil servant before and during WW2, she late moved to Oxford with her husbanb, Herhert Hart. Her life spans the 20th century, from the hope of the League of Nations to the misery of the 30's and the threat of fascism, from her aspirations as a young woman to the bery moving conclusion about her fourth child, born brain damaged and requiring more love and understanding than had ever been asked of her before.