Being a child TV soap star taught Daisy some lessons at an early age the power of jealousy, and the predictability of human behaviour. Its legacy is a numbing feeling of performing her life, rather than living it. Finally escaping her television role working as an au pair in Paris, her terrible homesickness is forgotten only when she s in the company of David, a quiet, confident, frustrating man who gives nothing away. Then tragedy teaches Daisy that life itself is never predictable, and forces into the surrogate motherhood of two little boys. David, reappearing, is the rock she leans on. Another new presence is the bitter former rival who has hated Daisy since they were eleven years old - a rival who thinks she can drive a wedge between Daisy and the husband she doesn t realise she loves. Or worse.