Patsy grows up with a loving father but a suicidal mother. After her mother's death, she is sent to live with her grandfather and then, during World War II, to an aunt's place in the country. When she becomes pregnant, her angry aunt packs her off to London again, where Patsy discovers she has the gift of clairvoyance--and where she is also brutalized, taken advantage of, and occasionally taken care of by a variety of characters, culminating in a long stay in a mental hospital. By the time she is an old woman, Patsy--now called Winnie--has nothing to call her own but a box of junk that represents the events of her life. And then even that is stolen....
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