Publisher's Synopsis
Jenny Carter had always led a sheltered life. Leaving school at fourteen, she is expected to help her mother run Pleasant View boarding house in Blackpool. To the holidaymakers it is a welcoming retreat, but to Jenny and her sister Violet, it feels more like the workhouse. Then Jenny meets Tom Bradshaw, a Yorkshire lad who whisks her down the aisle. She is happily married, with a young daughter, when war breaks out and Tom joins up. The war years give Jenny and Violet their first taste of freedom - and both girls begin to fall in love...