The Choice — Susan Lewis

Nikki Grant is 21, sparkling with joie de vivre, in love, ambitious and pregnant. No problem. The baby is a wonderful and welcome addition to the happy household she shares with the big love her life, Spencer James, and three fellow ex-grads, Danny, David and Kristin. Already award-winners with a short film written by Nikki and directed by Spence, they are now poised on the threshold of fame and fortune.

Nikki's parents, Jeremy and Adele, have a very different view of what the baby is going to mean to their daughter's future. Deeply disapproving of the baby's father and the friends Nikki has chosen, their frustrations reach breaking point when Nikki refuses to be controlled by them anymore. After she storms out a rift opens up between them that breaks all their hearts, but they are all too proud to back down.

Baby Zac arrives and Nikki and Spence are over the moon. He's perfect in every way and with Spence's career taking off they are ready to make the big move to London. Then suddenly events start to rush them down a very different road. The shock sends them reeling. Nothing could ever have prepared them for where they find themselves. It is a frightening and alien place with Zac at the centre of it and Nikki desperately trying to hold onto her baby, her life, her dreams.

As a cruel and wanton fate embroils them ever deeper in a world they can't escape, the love between Nikki and her son is put to the kind of test no parent should ever have to face.