Publisher's Synopsis
On Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party and twenty-one-year-old Joy falls in love at first sight. She is engaged within 24 hours but does not see her fiance again for a year. In 1980 eighteen-year-old Kate's rebellion is to run away from County Wexford with her illegitimate child. Fifteen years later Sabine leaves Hackney to visit the grandparents she doesn't know. When Sabine, her mother and grandmother are brought together, a deeply buried family secret is discovered, together with truths about the conflict between love and duty and about mothers and daughters.
