Publisher's Synopsis
Dorothy's childhood in the years following the First World War is bleak. Her implacable mother Molly seems incapable of loving her, and the cruelty and deprivation she endures are watched silently by her browbeaten father. On the eve of the Second World War she escapes from home and marries her childhood friend, Steve, but during the war she loses Steve and the baby they longed for. Rather than return to Molly she goes to work at Burbank Hall, where the war wounded are being treated, and meets Andrew, a young doctor who has also known deprivation, and who helps her blossom again.
