Ian MacFarlane

A single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make a better life for herself and her children.

The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there.

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.