Mrs Ada Harris (pronounced arris) of Number 5 Willis Gardens, Battersea, London, was going to Paris. Clutched in her battered imitation leather handbag was a return air ticket and a sum of fourteen hundred dollars held together by a rubber band. For the first time in her working life, Mrs. Harris was going to be truly extravagant. How that indominable lady takes Paris by storm, and how she fulfils her lifelong ambition to buy a Dior dress, is the subject of this enchanting book. It is impossible not to succumb to Mr. Gallicos spell. - The Times Literary Supplement