'It was a bad investment, I knew, this affection, and one that would leave me in the dark and cold in the years to come.'

Rosamund had managed to put off the problem of sex until she spends an evening with George. Ironically, that first sexual experience leaves her pregnant, and, having failed to decide not to have it, she finds herself an unmarried mother.

How she faces up to this predicament and all its trials is the subject of this dirct, funny and deeply touching novel. It is compulsive reading of the highest order.