When eight-year-old Jill arrives in the USA in 1928 with her part-time mother, Mollie, she is already a seasoned traveler, but her prudishly Victorian attitude to body parts and functions instilled by a spinster aunt and reinforced by the nuns at boarding school is poor preparation for being sent to live with a male-dominated Jamaican family in Baltimore, where the intrusive behaviour of 'Uncle Percy' becomes a guilty secret. In 1933, driven back to England by the Depression, mother and daughter live in London for six years before emigrating to Australia. During this time Jill becomes...