Tunku N.Nooranie J. Cuttilan was born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. She writes about her ‘tightly knit’ nurtured days with her parents which she calls the ‘cotton wool wrapped days’ and later the exposure to the West when she married Raden M. Usoof J. Cuttilan, adapting and enveloping the new environment with the Malay lifestyle and practice of her upbringing. Proud of being a Malay and the rich heritage of hers, she has included in this memoirs some photographs, notes letters etc; of heirloom which all those connected to the family can share and be proud of.