Audra, the impoverished children's nanny from Leeds who sacrificed everything for her only daughter. Christina, the talented art student who won world renown as a fashion designer - yet who has known pain and heartache. Kyle, the rebellious young woman, who chafes against her mother's success - and in whom her grandmother's spirit of duty and sacrifice is reborn. Three beautiful women - grandmother, mother and daughter - struggle bravely through five eventful decades of hidden love, high drama and sudden death in this, Barbara Taylor Bradford's most stirring tale, based closely on her own remarkable true-life story.