In 1948 young unmarried mother Bethan signs over her unborn baby to an adoption agency. In the present day Lucilla contemplates middle age, her happy marriage, her grown up children, her ageing spaniel and the question over the identity of her mother. Lucilla raised her children with kindness and strength but her own childhood under her adoptive parents was repressive and grim, marred by a lack of love. Indeed, when at 14 she is told she was adopted all she feels is relief. Berry traces the lives of three very different women and the choices that made a sadness of all their lives. Beautifully told but very sad.
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