Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realises ju...

Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realises just how alone she really is.