A nostalgic and sometimes harrowing account of the life of a young girl growing up in post war London during the 1950's.

 

Sylvia was born illegitimately and adopted at the age of one in 1945 to a couple living in Peckham, South East London.

 

However the story is not a happy one neither does it have a happy ever after...

 

Sexually abused by her adoptive father.

 

Physically and mentally abused by adoptive mother.

 

Sylvia grows up in London during the 1950's.

Coffee bars, juke boxes, rock n' roll.

 

Thrown out her home for daring to answer her adoptive mother back, Sylvia finds herself hitching lifts all over the country and sleeping rough on the streets.

Sylvia is arrested and placed in one children's home after another. Desperately absconding, a life on the streets means starvation or prostitution. It is only when she becomes pregnant that Sylvia resolves that her life must change...if only for the sake of her child.

 

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