This is Pat's life told in rhyme to portray all the happiness and joy throughout her childhood in a coalmining village in the 1940's through to her teens when Pat had to face terrible loss and heartache, then on through her life until present time... all the way through the book there is also beautiful inspired poems appropriate to the times and place... all reading this book will have emotions greatly pulled in all directions, titles life's carousel' because that is how Pat views life as one long ride over hills and dales going up and down through good days full of heavenly sunshine and bad days that can be hell, but all of which we have to endure on the ride...