Miriam's Silver Years (part one) is the fourth in a series of novels describing the life and family of Miriam Barker, nee Baxter, a busy East London woman who was born in 1907. This edition deals with the years 1948 to 1955, a period when rationing and coupons still applied, and the long shadow of the Second World War still hung over Britain. Through Miriam and her three sisters, we see how they cope with their increasingly complicated lives; the introduction of self-employment, marriages, births, deaths, moving house and television, as they embraced the second half of the twentieth century, and the radical changes which followed World War Two.