After living in Canada for four decades, it was a high school reunion in Winchester, England that unleashed an avalanche of memories for the author. It sent her on a journey of recollections over the next few years to rediscover the ancient twelve mile stretch of road in Southern England, where she grew up during the second World War. The result is part wartime memoir, part history, spiced with lively personal vignettes of a disappearing world, told from the perspective of someone for whom it remains "Forever England."