The first book of her own writing to appear was the short story collection "An Unavoidable Delay" (1962), and she published two further works of fiction: a novel entitled "Don't Look at Me Like That" (1967) and in 2011 another volume of stories, "Midsummer Night in the Workhouse". She was best known, however, for her books of memoirs, the first of which was "Instead of a Letter" in 1963. These memoirs were not written in chronological order, "Yesterday Morning" (2002) being the account of her childhood. She also translated various works from French.