Eighteen year old Sylvia Lennox moves from home to a rooming house in Millers Point, Sydney, where she meets Jade Chong, a design student with attitude. Theirs will be a life-long friendship. While Jade actively pursues a career in fashion design, Sylvia struggles to combine university, part-time jobs and boyfriends who are not quite right for her, while longing to express her artistic side. This hopeful, inspiring, feel-good novel depicts the lives, loves and careers of Sylvia and Jade over a period of more than fifty years.
Eighteen year old Sylvia Lennox moves from home to a rooming house in Millers Point, Sydney, where she meets Jade Chong, a design student with attitude. Theirs will be a life-long friendship. While Jade actively pursues a career in fashion design, Sylvia struggles to combine university, part-time jobs and boyfriends who are not quite right for her, while longing to express her artistic side. This hopeful, inspiring, feel-good novel depicts the lives, loves and careers of Sylvia and Jade over a period of more than fifty years.