Passing Sweet — Vicky Lancaster

This is the story of a friendship which triumphed over a woman's love for a man.

Though Laura loved Stephen Dacre, the claims of his wife Coral, her friend from childhood days, came first. Although she could not unite them, she would not separate them.

What was the real truth of this strange union? Of Coral so gifted and so remote from ordinary life? Of Laura who prized love and surrendered it? Of Stephen so famous and so applauded?

None of their friends knew the real story. When Coral died as an old woman, her secret history died with her. Only Laura knew it in its entirety, and to her, long married, happy in her husband's love, the sorrow of youth was no more than a half-forgotten dream.