It was featured on the 1993 New York Times list of notable books of the year.

She also deals with her post-war life, and the stigma of her past that thwarted future productions.

The book also includes memoirs of her underwater marine explorations and her photography which had been published as Coral Gardens.

Writing in The New York Times Book Review, John Simon said the memoir did not contain "a single unspellbinding page."

Although he questioned some of the veracity of her accounts, he concluded "The book must, in the main, be true; it is far too weird for fiction.