Molly Corbally served as a nurse in World War II, and on returning to England became one of the first District Health Visitors in the newly-formed NHS. She worked in the rural Midlands between 1940s-70s. She died in 2012, but her book was rediscovered in 2016 and republished here.
A great discovery ... a wonderfully intimate sense of everyday life in a now-vanished Britain - Reader's Digest Enchanting - Sunday Post