Summary

Rachel Booker has had a difficult start in life.

Rachel Booker has had a difficult start in life. When her father dies, deep in gambling debt, it's up to her mother to make ends meet. Hardened by the daily struggle, she has little time left for affection or warmth. Mother and daughter work together at Birmingham's Rag Market, selling second-hand clothes to put a little food on the table. There is a silver lining as Rachel makes her first childhood friend, Danny, at the market. As they grow older, friendship blossoms into something more. But at the tender age of sixteen, Rachel falls pregnant just as World War Two breaks out. The young couple marry in haste but it isn't long before Danny is called up. Left on the home front with a new baby, Rachel must scrape by with the other residents of Aston. If Danny ever makes it back, will he be the same boy she loved so fiercly? - Back cover.