
Three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory & their lives become entwined by war & work
- & a child called David. Edie the main character marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at 19 & after losing her child from the marriage she faces the war grieving & lonely. Then one night during the Blitz an infant mysteriously abandoned during the bombing is handed into her care... Ruby meanwhile doesn't want to be left behind in the wedding stakes & settles for marriage with Frank. Finally there's Janet kind-hearted & susceptible to male charm who is hurt desperately by an affair with a married man. David the child who steals Edie's heart as she brings him up through a time none of them will ever forget is the love of all their lives. & when David is old enough to wonder who he really is he leads Edie through struggle & heartache to a life & love she would never have dreamed of...