"I recently celebrated my 90th birthday with a blow-out bash for all my friends and neighbors. I had just finally completed my memoir based on a five-year diary I kept as a teenager, from 1935-1939, and which I still have. "It was hard work, for even though all the events are listed in the diary, it was difficult remembering so long ago how I felt and what my true reactions were to certain events. "Yes, it was hard work, but I'm fully convinced that all this writing is helping keep me mentally alert and active. "I think you'll enjoy in the five volumes of my 1930s diary a delightful armchair journey as you meet the people and places I so enjoyed in a quieter and in a quieter and simpler time."Finally, I hope my books bring as much pleasure to you as you read them as I had when I wrote them."Mary McIntosh is now 93 years old, yet she writes with all the animation and verve of a twenty year old. In the five volumes of Mary's Diary she remembers and describes in vivid detail the adventures she enjoyed and the wonderful people she met.

Try a sample and you'll find you want to read more. You'll also yearn for those times gone by and the slower and more innocent time she relates.Volume Five, the 1939 book, is a wonderful read and a real inspiration to get up and order the books for the other four years!.