Powell's books of her life 'in service' were so successful she was invited to tour and speak in America. Here she gives her impressions of America and Americans in her forthright style:. "It's expensive to use a 'loo in America. We grumble at having to use a one-pence piece to get in. here I had to use a ten-cent piece, which is eight pence..." Her account of the tour is uproariously funny, from Boston to Chicago, from Disneyland to the Grand Canyon, from Jack from Ottowa to lee from Texas, it's a rampage through the US of A.