"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

It’s 1955 and Tom Carver is a young architect living in Australia. He travels across to England to visit family and whilst travelling on a train from London to Cornwall he has a chance meeting that changes his life forever. At the outset he is a rather callow and shallow young man, but through his travels and trials he becomes so much more. His story takes him from Cornwall, to London and Sydney. He learns compassion when he realises that the only difference between himself and others less fortunate is usually nothing more than sheer luck.