A collection of short family stories my Mother passed down to me ranging from her life as a child during WWI on the Island of Malta to the hard farming life, along with the arranged marriage, not wanting to leave her Island of Malta, trama of having to leave her oldest child behind when she left for the U.S.A. with six other children. Many facts and history. Bonus: in the back there are a number of Maltese recipes along with desserts.