To surrender your baby boy under duress to the care of strangers, and to lose another child to illness only days after giving birth, are two of the greatest tragedies any woman can be faced with.In this heart-stopping family saga, emotional upheavals and dramatic disclosures are the key points in a vivid, pacy narrative stretching from 1940s Yorkshire to 1960s Ireland, a cattle station in the wilds of Northern Australia, and the booming British music scene of the 1970s and '80s. Sophia Bertucelli, our fiery heroine, has a strange way of falling for the wrong man - including a murderous bully called Stephen Howard.But when comforting words from a handsome teenage boy call to mind a long-lost love from Yorkshire, Sophia wonders. could this be the first link in mending the broken chain of her life?