Sarah Whitman/Sarah — Diane Pearson

This is a book rich in adventure, evoking all the nostalgia, the pleasure and the pain of a bygone era - an era covering the General Strike, the London of tramcars and picture palaces and fights in the East End, of India and the twilight of the British Raj. Through the stormy, perilous years between the two World Wars, Sarah Whitman avidly seizes whatever life has to offer whilst fighting her way up from domestic service to school mistress. Her life is touched by three men, one who teaches her what it was to love, another who waits for her in vain, and a third - the strange tormented man who is to be her destiny.