In this sequel to Mollie's Choice, Mollie Lisle has reached her first summer term at Durham Girls' County School. She and her fellow boarder, Emily, have a happy circle of friends in their own forms, but as their headmistress seeks to promote greater integration throughout the school, old loyalties are tested, new friendships formed and Mollie even ends up spending time with the spiteful and spoilt Rita. Set in 1925, just a year before Britain's General Strike, the story gently reflects some of the social and industrial challenges of the era, during which strong and opposing opinions were honestly held by persons of integrity. Mollie and Emily can't resolve every problem they come across, but they do learn to live through them, to forgive and forget, to hope and to laugh as they work towards their future.