When Janey has to leave her home after her stepfather beats her up so badly her mother fears for her safety, she finds herself in a children's home deep in the Sussex countryside. Unused to open space, fields and love she soons settles in and the friends she makes quickly become her new family.
But, at the age of sixteen, Janey has to leave the home and is found a job in Balham as a housemaid. She feels abandoned again and the job is awful. Lonely and miserable, things get even worse when Janey falls ill with influenza and nearly dies. Although she recovers, Janey's situation doesn't improve until she meets Christy, a blind woman, and is employed as her companion. The two women become friends and when Janey meets Christy's son, Charles, she soon realises that she has fallen in love with him. But Charles is married and Janey fears that she will never find the happiness she has always longed for...
- ISBN10 0708993710
- ISBN13 9780708993712
- Publish Date 1 April 2002 (first published 6 December 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 March 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher F A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Imprint Charnwood (Large Print)
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English