In 1954, my mum (who had never been abroad) bundled three children under eight into her Hillman Minx and set off on a 4,000-mile drive to Baghdad - all for her lover!
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Mary Tisdall, 31, recorded her trip in a 22,000-word memoir and close to a hundred handwritten letters that she exchanged with my father, Billy, an RAF sergeant who had been posted to Iraq.In 1954, my mum (who had never been abroad) bundled three children under eight into her Hillman Minx and set off on a 4,000-mile drive to Baghdad - all for her lover!
Mary Tisdall, 31, recorded her trip in a 22,000-word memoir and close to a hundred handwritten letters that she exchanged with my father, Billy, an RAF sergeant who had been posted to Iraq. Read more