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Space Below my Feet
Moffat’s latest publication is her autobiography. As a grammar school girl her life was uneventful until World War Two when she did six years’ service in the Land Army and the ATS. She deserted from the Army when she met a climber, and her world became centred on mountains and steep rock. She lived rough, sleeping out, hitch-hiking from Britain to the Alps, all her possessions in a rucksack on her back, taking odd jobs to pay for food and a night’s bed in a barn when it rained. Tents were a luxury, so were boots. She climbed barefooted.
Respectability, money and a home of her own came with the guide’s certificates, and for twenty years she made her living at climbing (in the intervals between engagements writing - anything from features for a naturist magazine to BBC scripts) until, avid for new challenges, she turned to crime. The adventures continued but now they would furnish material for the mysteries. Of her autobiography The Observer said: "As a story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains Space Below my Feet is magnificent." And Edna O’Brien maintained that "not since I read Brave Cowboy have I been so enthralled by a book."
"As a story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains, Space Below my Feet is magnificent." The Observer
Space Below my Feet