Rowena wants a child, but not its father, and her friend Isobel is sceptical. Yet when Christabel is born she is almost won over: why shouldn't single people have children? Then Rowena is killed in an accident. To whom does Christabel belong? Her grandmother thinks she has the right to decide, but the social workers think differently, and the foster mother has her own very firm ideas. In the middle is Isobel, struggling with her own feelings. 1991.