'Susan Delaney's searingly honest memoir, Petals In The Gutter, depicts life in all its rawness for women in the nineteen-sixties. It is a story of discrimination, abuse, and the pressure to conform faced by her, and other unmarried mothers. Despite this her story, told through the lens of its time, is one of determination, resilience and hope. This book is a page turner from beginning to end, and one that many women today will identify with.'

'Captivating' and 'Thought provoking.' 'The book is written in such a unique and personal way with wonderful notes of the North......a personal book with private revelations which must have taken courage, bravery and angst to reveal and expose.'