Art student Kate Paul’s Journal, 1958-1963, is full of the frustrations of provincial life, perpetual poverty, unrequited love and anger at the state of the world when nuclear war seemed imminent. The fascinating trivia of a young woman’s life - dying her stockings black and her hair blonde - her anguish at not being at the Aldermaston March and, at a time when the evil of apartheid was at his height, fear that the police would catch up with her for chalking Free Africa on a Taunton wall in protest. Unrequited love for the young Pop painter, Derek Boshier, portraits of friends and her great passion, literature. Journals are usually a pretty compelling read. That this one was written by an intelligent and passionate young woman at such a pivotal time makes it even more so. If you were there then reading this Journal is a must. If not, then read it to find out about the kind of people who had such an influence on the second half of the twentieth century.