When her beloved grandfather dies in 1958, Polly Merton is forced to share her home with a woman she scarcely knows—the mother who abandoned her. Sadie Merton, glamorous and selfish, has her own set of morals and Polly is appalled by her scandalous lifestyle. Ashamed and resentful, she takes refuge in her friends and her college studies. Then Polly's love of France takes her to Paris. And after a chance encounter her life will never be the same again. Prize-winning novelist Margaret Kaine brilliantly evokes the way of life of a bygone era, a time when the tragic memories of wartime were at last giving way to a new generation's hopes and dreams.
Born and educated in the Potteries in Staffordshire, Margaret Kaine now lives in Leicester. Her short stories have been published widely in women's magazines in the UK, and also in Australia, Norway, South Africa and Ireland. Ring of Clay, her debut novel, won both the RNA's New Writer's Award in 2002 and the Society of Authors' Sagittarius Prize in 2003. She has now published six romantic sagas about life in the Potteries between the 50's and 70's; her latest novel, Ribbon of Moonlight is also set partly in Paris. Translations include German and French and all details of her books can be found on her website - www.margaretkaine.com
