At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H.
Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the
literary circles where he had been lionised since the publication of his
Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, he set about looking for the right
partner on the streets of London. Young Emma is a moving and revealing
memoir told with disarming honesty and humour. Davies records his life
with three women: from his affair with Bella, the wife of a Sergeant
Major, to his year-long liaison with the gentle Louise, to the turbulent
brushes with a society woman who fears for her own life at his hands. He
finally meets Emma, then pregnant, at a bus-stop on the Edgware Road.
This is the story of their love affair.