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Entry Text: CORNISH, Margaret. Troubled Waters: Memoirs of a Canal Boatwoman. 208p., illus., index. London: Hale, 1987. ISBN: 0709029551.

The author was one of a small number of women recruited by the Inland Waterways Section of the Ministry of Transport to run barges during WWII. A good tale of an odd backwater. A revised edition was published by Baldwin in 1994.