My Turn to Make the Tea by Monica Dickens

Monica (1915-1992), great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, was born into an upper-middle-class household. She acted out after becoming disillusioned with the culture in which she was raised, throwing her school uniform over Hammersmith Bridge and being expelled from Saint Paul's Girls' School in London. Notwithstanding her luxury, Dickens elected to serve; her experiences as a chef and general servant would form the basis of her debut book, One Pair Of Hands, which was published in 1939. Dickens married an American Navy commander, Roy O. Stratton spent much of her adult life in Boston and Washington, D.C., although the majority of her writing was set in the United Kingdom. No More Meadows, which she published in 1953, was inspired by her work with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC); she later helped to form the American Samaritans in Massachusetts.

Between 1970 and 1971, she published The Worlds End Series, a collection of children's books about rescuing animals and, to a lesser extent, children. Dickens returned to England after the death of her husband in 1985, where she continued to write until her death at the age of 77.