Chocolate Girls

When Edie marries young to escape her unhappy family home, she thinks that life can only get better. At the age of nineteen she is widowed, and after losing her child from the marriage she faces the Second World War grieving and lonely. Then one night during the Birmingham Blitz an infant, mysteriously abandoned during the bombing, is handed into her care. Her lively friend Ruby, meanwhile, doesn`t want to be left behind in the wedding stakes and settles for marriage with Frank, a man much changed by war. Finally there`s Janet, intelligent, kind-hearted and susceptible to male charm, who is hurt desperately by an affair with a married man, and who assumes whe will never love again.