Abandoned by her mother, Tricia grows up in England, Wales, Ireland and South Africa suffering the daily tirades of her manipulative stepmother, Winifred, who controls her life and loves even into adulthood. Constantly moving, Tricia has a love affair with Africa and finally settles there, marrying John Frestel. She suffers the sudden loss of two husbands by the time she is forty, and raises her son, Peter, alone, doing whatever she must...