This work talks about a young womans determination to keep the one person she loves best in the world. Twins Tanwen & Donna Evans are as different as chalk & cheese. Tanwen is pretty pert a bubbly extrovert but very selfish & as slim & sharp as a needle. Donna is plain placid & shy although very warm-hearted & as sturdy & useful as a pin. In 1924 when the girls are fourteen their mother Gwyneth insists both become apprentices at The Cardiff Drapers where she once worked. Her dressmaking pays little & the girls wages will help bring more money in. Tanwen is in great demand when she becomes the store model but much to both girls dismay Gwyneth insists Donna goes along with her sister when she has a date. Donna ends up playing gooseberry or in the company of a boy she doesnt like
- until she meets tall handsome Dylan Wallis & falls in love. But Tanwen sets her heart on Dylan with disastrous consequences for them all...