100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the Sixties by Eva Pasco is a fun memoir. I especially like the hiding under desks for nuclear war both funny/ridiculous and sad that the world came so close to disaster. History is woven into the personal memories. Popular songs, famous people like Marilyn Monroe, the Kennedy Camelot years and assassination, and much more. This is often written with humor and a good turn of phrase.
She never felt safe at home as a young girl, and didn't understand why when she finally escaped she wasn't safe in the big wide world either ...effectively jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!