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Not an Ordinary Life by Eileen Younghusband (2025 Edition)

Guided by her favourite motto – “No problems, only solutions” – Eileen lived every chapter of her life with resilience and irrepressible spirit.

At just nineteen, Eileen joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and was soon posted to the RAF’s top secret Filter Room, tracking enemy aircraft and helping to defend Britain during its darkest hours – work she kept secret for decades and would later recount in her award-winning novel One Woman’s War.

But Eileen’s remarkable story didn’t end with the war. In the decades that followed, Eileen turned her fierce intelligence and indomitable spirit to new causes: completing her university degree at eighty-eight, winning a British Empire Medal for services to education, fighting for greater access to life-changing medical treatments on the NHS, and becoming a beloved author and a familiar face on British television, inspiring audiences young and old.

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About the Author

Eileen Younghusband (1921-2016) was born in London in 1921. After serving and defending her country she had a successful career in the hotel management and catering industries. She ran a wide variety of businesses, from selling herbs to supplying thousands of tons of scrap metal to a company in Spain.

In more recent years Eileen moved to Sully, Wales. At the age of 87 Eileen graduated from the Open University as one of their students of the year. An avid campaigner on health and education issues, Eileen was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2012 for services to adult education, and won the People's Book Prize 2012/13 with her autobiography One Woman's War.


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