This collection brings together the older generation of Virago's writers with their younger successors, who interview them, creating a wide-ranging picture of twentieth-century women's writing. The writers involved include: Maya Angelou, Rosa Guy, Dorothy Hewitt, Zoe Fairburns, Molly Keane, Rosamond Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison, Rebecca West and others. An insight into how and why these women have come to writing.