This first volume of the author's AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF JEAN ROBERTSON tells of a small girl in a small Scottish village outside Glasgow. Her father is away in the trenches of the first world war, her houseproud mother neglects her, and she stimulates her imagination by watching the people around her.Jean in the Morning is one of those novels that drive librarians to drink. It's a first-person narrative telling the story of Jean Robertson. The title page says the book's author is Janet Sandison who is a character in a series of books by Jane Duncan. The library has Jean in the Morning cataloged under Jane Duncan although that name does not appear on the title page.