Told through a little girl's keen and often amused observation, An Inch of Time gives a truthful, pleasant picture of daily life in Hong Kong in the post-war years. This first-hand account of the kind of home and school education received by many middle-class local Hong Kong children decades ago contains reminiscences about aspects of lifestyle, customs and traditions — both eastern and western — which average Hongkongers lived by in the 1940s and 1950s. This memoir is set in a specific locality, the Happy Valley district of Hong Kong Island, home for over a century to the famous Jockey Club racecourse.