Ring Of Clay

Despite an early life marked by tragedy and hardship Beth Sherwin dreams of staying on at school and even going to university - a heady ambition for a Potteries girl in 1956. Then a brutal encounter leaves her pregnant at seventeen. Unwilling to break her widowed mother's heart Beth bears her secret alone and gives up her baby daughter for adoption. She finishes school takes on a challenging job and meets Michael Rushton. When he proposes she faces a dilemma - should she tell Michael her guilty secret - knowing that the brutal father of her child will be at her wedding?