In 1954, Peggy, a respectable war widow and librarian, gives birth out of wedlock to Angela, a 'coloured' baby, and due to the prejudice of society and her own deep shame, must give the baby up for adoption. Angela is adopted by a loving and well-meaning white couple, and, as she grows up, must come to terms with the growing prejudice and confusions surrounding her circumstances, and of falling in love with a man fifteen years her senior. Sarah, Angela's own daughter, grows up to be a feisty, liberated single parent, who, on the death of her father, discovers her mother was a stranger called Angela Zendalic, and must come grips with her shock in order to search for her. Three interwoven and beautifully written love stories that evoke passion, betrayal, secrets, lies and personal tragedy.words : 91616