Jan Carey

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Trish is a lonely young wife in a tense marriage, living at the top of a high rise block of flats. She looks to the police and her husband for help when she finds her baby has been stolen from its pram.

Mary and Barry Case's second child, Lindsey, has spina bifida. They must decide whether to allow an operation which would save her life but leave her permanently crippled, or leave her fate to nature.