Book 3 of the Trilogy the Patchwork Years completes the story of the struggle of a family to survive, following the birth of Grandfather, the bastard child of a Scottish aristocrat and a chambermaid on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk in 1854, through war and recession to the present day; as told by Sarah in her continuing search for, not only the well-being of her family after the years spent moving here and there, but also the meaning behind it all. The lessons to be learned.