While her soldier husband George is abroad during World War II Elizabeth Markham foolishly allows herself to be seduced by a Canadian airman. She becomes pregnant but reluctantly agrees to gives the child up for adoption. George returns home at the end of the war unaware of his wife’s infidelity. Thirty nine years later, she receives a phone call from a young woman who says she is her daughter. The story tells of the lives of the two women and their family relationships.This book will engender laughter, tears, sympathy and sometimes shock at the explicit language.