Publisher's Synopsis
Emmy Dickens lives with her widowed mother in a neat house in neglected Nightingale Court, but Mrs Dickens has always impressed upon her daughter that her main aim in life must be to escape from the court. Emmy sees that marriage is her best way out and when Peter Wesley, First Officer aboard a cruise ship, asks her to marry him, she is over the moon. Life goes well for the newly-weds, they set up home and start a family. But when Peter is killed and Emmy is left almost penniless, she is forced to move back to Nightingale Court with her daughter, Diana. Emmy, a beautiful girl, gets a job in a busy restaurant and soon attracts the attentions of young men, but her problems are far from over...
