On a dark and stormy night, generations ago, something happens to change a young girl`s life for ever. Fifteen-year-old Fran is abducted on her way home from Sunday school, and the fallout from this event shapes the path of her family from that moment onward. As if the fact of the attack were not pain enough, the family is forced to transplant itself, leaving the Gloucestershire village it has always known for the mill towns of Yorkshire. They start again and build a new life, but the legacy of secrecy is passed down through the family for years, waiting for one brave soul to find out what actually happened. This domestic saga explores the amazing changes in society over the course of fifty years, paralleled by the events surrounding the Sandford family over the same time. We see attitudes and behaviours change with the arrival of the war and the necessity for women to work outside the home, and we experience the changing opinions of ordinary people as their world shifts around them. Lose yourself in the triumphs and tribulations of the Sandford family as the nineteenth becomes the twentieth century, secrets are kept and shared, and life is altered for ever.