This was 1960 in London England her family had moved to a council house 225 The mall. This particular day her mother happened to see a woman moving in two doors down. It got her curiosity going because the man who lived there she didn't like him a tall and not getting good vides from him. Seeing this woman she looked very frail and her mother always wanting to help the under dog and introduced herself to her. She found out she was the cleaning lady had a very hard life and an orphan. Her mother took this woman under her wing and became friends with Joy and she already had a son.  Joy would come over for afternoon tea and her mother loved baking and having an apple tree in the garden. She would make apple and they'd chat and her mum always the joker making her laugh and feel special because she would make a fuse over her. A horrible thing happened to Joy this man took advantage of her and she got pregnant this is a sad story. He did marry her and her son was born deformed a horrible birth defect. Why did this happen? She took the drug for morning sickness Thalidomide. Watch this video unbelievable what drug companies can get away with. Her mum had said she was thinking of taking this drug  when she was pregnant with Kim's baby brother. That intuition stopped her thank goodness and there was her friend having to deal with this man and her baby son. Has this story in one of her novels writing became away of expressing herself, will she get her novels published?