Kitty — Lena Kennedy

"PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR OLD KIT BAG, AND SMILE, KITTY, SMILE..."

Tough as a weed, bright as a sunflower, Kitty was a city blossom, planted in the rough sod of London's slums. Valiant in the face of her mother's death, she rolled up her sleeves, raised the younger children herself...and went bravely on. Loving and innocent in her marriage to a wandering husband, she survived his cruelty... Punished with grief at the lifeless birth of her only child, Kitty took a deep breath, and went bravely on.

Through a quarter century of fleeting passion and adversity, while the Depression raged and the bombs of World War II fell about her, never losing the twinkle in her own wide eyes, still Kitty went bravely on. Until, like shimmering diamonds plucked from the darkest coals, she won, at last, life's greatest treasures: Love and a happy heart.