I love me some Noel Streatfeild. Turns out, she wrote several fictionalized autobiographical books about her life, and I just read two of them, A Vicarage Family and On Tour. I think there is one more but my library very unobligingly does not have it. She was the second of four children, and often felt out of place in her family. Her older sister, Isobel, had asthma and as they had not yet invented the glory that is Albuterol, she was often an invalid. The younger sister, Louise, was the beauty of the family and apparently never gave any trouble…
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