O'Neill, Geraldine

Maria Conti leads a full, vibrant life in 1960s Manchester, spending her time at her widowed father's Italian restaurant. But when Leo is tragically killed, Maria finds herself in the middle of a war between her Italian and her Irish relatives.

As she puts the final stitches in her perfect wedding dress, Sarah Love receives dreadful news which wrecks all her future plans. Heartbroken and humiliated, she leaps at a chance to make a fresh start away from her native Tullamore.

Lily Grace has escaped the confines of the Scottish village where she grew up, and is at college in Newcastle. She loves her independent student life. The only cloud on the horizon is the blunder she made when she kissed lecturer Gerard Renée, not realising he was a married man.