<p><b>''A tender and heart-breaking story with a shocking family secret at its centre...I was weeping happy tears at the end'' Saskia Sarginson</b><br><br>One crisp and bright Mothering Sunday, Alexandra Abbott''s now elderly mother, Elizabeth, reveals a secret that she has kept buried for over 50 years...<br><br>April 1963: Aspiring artist Kitty Campbell has recently given birth to her first child in a mother and baby home. Kitty is to give her baby away for adoption but, when the day comes, she can''t bring herself to part with her tiny daughter.<br><br>In desperation, Kitty flees. She stops at a tea shop to feed her hungry baby and meets the owner, Bet - a mother with her own heartache to bear. But Bet is kind to Kitty, holding the baby and offering a listening ear.<br><br>Then Kitty makes a decision that will change all their lives for ever. Several decades later, can the truth from that day finally right the past and bring a mother and daughter together? <br><br><i>A heart-rending