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Stella Brady has worked hard to leave behind her humble origins. She intends to marry bank manager Alexander Munro and live a comfortable life as a bank manager's wife. But when she meets Don Firth, a tomato grower and kindred spirit, her plans change dramatically.
When Mrs Harris first married she and her husband, Tom, fell in love with a little brick cottage in the village. They dreamed of owning it and adding a bathroom. Tom dies and her son, Tommy, is drowned and Mrs Harris gives up hope of ever owning the cottage. Many years later it is put up for sale, but she knows she could never find the money to buy it.
Ivory D. relates the life and career of the Restoration dramatist, Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689), allegedly the first woman to earn her living from writing.