Sunshine and Shadows Book

Daisy Kildare lives with her family in a cottage perched on the Connemara coast. The Kildares are poor but happy. But when their croft is wrested from them Daisy's Aunt Jane who is housekeeper to Dr and Mrs Venables offers to take Daisy back to Liverpool so that the child can be a companion to her employers' orphaned niece Cynthia. Daisy is a tomboy young for her age self-willed and hot-tempered. In Ireland she was seldom in school but often in trouble. Now however she tells herself that she must conform. She begins to work hard in school and though she and Cynthia don't get along she meets Jake the chauffeur's son and life in Liverpool becomes easier to bear. When Jake goes to university Daisy means to follow suit but war intervenes and instead she starts work at a munitions factory and falls in love for the very first time.

She begins to work hard in school, and though she and Cynthia dont get along, she meets Jake, the chauffeurs son, and life in Liverpool becomes easier to bear.When ...