Do you remember what it felt like to be fifteen?

With the same passion and brutal honesty that she brought to Augusta, Gone – the story of her daughter’s troubled adolescence – Dudman re-creates her own wild ride through the turbulent Sixties.

From the prim tradition of a posh girls’ school and debutante parties of Washington, DC, to the snows of New Hampshire and the campaign for Eugene McCarthy, from living out of a knapsack in Spain to tripping on LSC in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Expecting to Fly takes us on a blistering ride, and asks, “Which was it – triumph, exploration, some important journey, or just a big stupid mistake, a total waste of time?”