Camera Girl

A moving and inspiring memoir of Doreen Spooner. Struggling to hold her head high through the disintejgration of her family through alcoholism, she began a career as Fleet Street's first female photographer. While the love and family life she'd always dreamed of fell aprt. Doreen walked into the frantic world of a national newspaper. Determined to save her family from crippling debt, she captured the Swinging Sixties through political scandals, glamorous stars and cultural icons, while her homelife spiralled further out of control. This is an emotional story of family and a hugely enjoyable portrait of post-war Britain.