Liverpool: Christmas Day 1924. When twelve-year-old Sara Cordwainer the unloved child of rich & fashionable parents sees a ragged girl with a baby in her arms outside her church she stops to talk to her pressing her collection money into the girl's icy h&. But from this generous act comes a tragedy which will haunt her for years. When years later Sara meets Brogan a young Irishman working in England she feels she has found a friend at last. But Brogan has a secret which he dare tell no one not even Sara. & in a Dublin slum Brogan's little sister Polly is growing up. The only girl in a family of boys she knows herself to be much loved but it is not until Sara begins to work at the Salvation Army children's home Strawberry Fields that the two girls meet
- & Brogan's secret is told at last...