[1] Shonfield studied sociology at Kingston Polytechnic and after she graduated took a job in the planning department of Kensington & Chelsea Borough Council.
[3] Her upbringing was an important influence on her later work as an architect, with her strongly felt ideals being "largely the product of a highly cultivated, politically liberal and internationally orientated family".
An extract was later included in Creative Engagement in Palliative Care New Perspectives on User Involvement ed Lucinda Jarrett, Sunderarajan Jayaraman, CRC Press (2017).
"The patient feels like a man who, stooping to pluck a nosegay of wild flowers on a railway line, was unexpectedly hit in the small of the back by the Cornish Express.
He lies, superfluous behind a stained curtain, and listens to the animal cries of a distinguished Professor as he attempts to turn a junior doctor inside out and make him swallow himself."