Sarah lives in a typical Victorian industrial town. Happy to be starting her Easter holiday from school, her joy is short-lived for, a year after her step-father disappeared without a trace, her mother is tragically killed in a road accident, leaving Sarah and her twin brothers without any means of support. Stoically she decides her only course of action is to go in search of her real father and with some reluctance places the boys in the local orphanage. Her search begins in a small Wessex village where sadly Sarah becomes caught up in the very lifestyle she has been so desperate to evade. Eventually, she meets a wealthy industrialist who becomes devotedly attached to her and helps her in her brave quest but the unexpected outcome leaves Sarah devastated. A Claim to Kin explores the multi-faceted, complex relationships which can exist between different generations of the sexes