A desperate childhood. An uncertain past. One chance at happiness.. . Born into poverty & living under the roof of her violent & abusive brother-in-law young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a women's dress shop in the West End
- a million miles away from the reality of her life as a mud-lark scavenging on the banks of the Thames. Fate soon intervenes & Kitty finds herself working as a skivvy for Sir Desmond & Lady Arabella Mableton in Mayfair. Bullied by the kitchen maids Kitty is soon taken under Lady Arabella's wing & for the first time in her life Kitty dares to hope. But Lady ' Bella' has a secret & unable to live with her domineering husband she decides to leave fighting for custody of their daughter Leonie. Kitty will do anything for her mistress but her loyalty is severely tested as all their lives are thrown into turmoil & Kitty faces a life of poverty & hardship in the slums of the East End once more.. .