When Jan's daughter Louise dies, it unleashes a storm of grief and rips the family further apart. Lottie, her eldest, deals with her pain by acting as the wild child, but finds herself fifteen, pregnant, and thrown out of the family home in Devon.
Jan, already estranged from her grandchildren and their father, is living in Surrey. Her second husband has recently died and she is also overwhelmed by grief. Until Lottie, the granddaughter she has never met arrives - pregnant and in need of a home.
Lottie gives birth to Summer and finds happiness with her grandmother until a devastating pandemic arrives. As panic and pandemonium sweep the nation and the death toll soars and lives are changed forever.
