One freezing night in the '30's, a baby is left to die in a public lavatory in Sunderland. But she doesn't die. Sarah Brown is from sturdy stock, and she needs to be, for the orphanage where she grows up is run with brutal efficiency by child-hating Matron Cox. Only Sarah dares to defy her - with horrific consequences.
Sarah survives, emerging from the Home as a beautiful and determined young woman, with a post in London as a housekeeper. She's more than capable of dealing with her employer's son, who has a penchant for young servants. And when she meets again Rodney Mallard, the young doctor who tended her after a beating in the Home, Sarah begins to dream of a different kind of future.
But serpents lurk in every paradise. And, whatever personal battles she wins or loses, Sarah won't be completely happy till she knows why she was abandoned by her mother, the one person who should have loved her more than life itself...
Sarah survives, emerging from the Home as a beautiful and determined young woman, with a post in London as a housekeeper. She's more than capable of dealing with her employer's son, who has a penchant for young servants. And when she meets again Rodney Mallard, the young doctor who tended her after a beating in the Home, Sarah begins to dream of a different kind of future.
But serpents lurk in every paradise. And, whatever personal battles she wins or loses, Sarah won't be completely happy till she knows why she was abandoned by her mother, the one person who should have loved her more than life itself...
