Like many migrants from Europe in the 1950s Mother could not speak English. The women who lived thought that time suffered hardship due to lack of language and work skills.
Calel (Memoir of a Greek Mother)
How would you cope if you came to a foreign country against your wishes and your husband is killed leaving you destitute with three children to look after? How would you cope if the grief of his death brought on mental illness?
Cally Berryman author 