Born in 1935 the heroine lives through the war years in a working class area of Cardiff to develop into a woman desperate to find happiness and success. Married and widowed whilst still young, and with three children to raise she leads a colourful life of adventure, and self-determination. Not content with the ordinary, her life is filled with her search for the glamourous and the exotic. Experiencing setbacks, successes, a remarkable and torrid love affair, heartache, renewed love and adventures in foreign lands she creates a world in which she, and her children, find the things that really matter in life. Her life is a remarkable testament to overcoming adversity and offers hope to many.