Alone beneath the heaven

Authors:Rita Bradshaw, Elizabeth Henry

Summary:One freezing night in the '30s, a baby is left to die in a public lavatory in Sunderland. But she doesn't die. Instead, Sarah Brown grows up in an orphanage run with brutal efficiency by child-hating Matron Cox. Only Sarah dares to defy her - with horrific consequences. Sarah survivies, emerging from the home as a beautiful and determined young woman, with a post in London as a housekeeper. And when she meets again Rodney Mallard, the young doctor who tended her after a beating in the Home, Sarah begins to dream of a different kind of future. But serpents lurk in paradise. And Sarah won't be completely happy till she knows why she was abandoned by her mother, the one person who should have loved her more than life itself