By Margaret Drabble. Dramatised in five parts by Michelene Wandor.

Set in middle-class, mid-20th-century London, Rosamund Stacey finds herself pregnant after her first sexual encounter. Against all the odds stacked against her, the predictions of her friends and the prejudice and sorrow she endures, she finds love and a new definition for her life in the perfection and helplessness of her baby daughter.