Sheila Stewart

Drawing on recorded interviews with the few boatwomen left who were born and bred on horse-drawn boats, Sheila Stewart has recounted their experiences as seen through the eyes of an illiterate boatwoman, travelling mainly on the Oxford Canal through the Great War, the Depression, the Second World War, and the decline of the canals.

The exciting story of a canal-boat family and their dog, Toby, as they experience the Blitz on Coventry in 1940.