In 1975 lucinda marsh throws herself in front of a speeding train leaving her twelve-year-old daughter kitty alone, confused and abandoned - save for a selfish aunt, a violent father and her childhood sweetheart harry je...In 1975 lucinda marsh throws herself in front of a speeding train leaving her twelve-year-old daughter kitty alone, confused and abandoned - save for a selfish aunt, a violent father and her childhood sweetheart harry jenkins. When kitty is sent to an orphanage after the death of her father, she meets georgie, a lively cockney girl who, through the following difficult years, becomes her loyal friend.