Martha, a promising art student, becomes pregnant. Her experiences are told with realism, sadness and humour, evoking the social mores of the 1960's.
Martha wins a scholarship to St. Martins School of Art to study fashion illustration.A country girl, raised in Devon, she finds London overwhelming but has a good network of friends and is progressing so well at college that she looks set for a stellar career. This is London in the 'swinging sixties', and Martha, like everyone, enjoys occasional brief relationships.After one of these encounters, Martha becomes pregnant. Despite the 'sexual revolution'; England in the 1960's was still rather Victorian, with pregnancy outside marriage deemed totally unacceptable. Martha is faced with three choices; all of them stark, to attempt to raise the child alone with no support from familly or government; to abort the child ( illegal and dangerous) or to have her baby adopted. Martha chooses the latter. This is her story.