Ironically, the clues she pieces together about what happened lead her back to her mother’s home town, and to her childhood friend, Sonia, who is keeping a painful secret of her own. Chloe is her mother’s daughter, and finds herself wanting to help Nicky find his real mother, the one who abandoned him at birth.

When Nicky begins hanging around Chloe’s house with a mixture of curiosity and anger that she has had a happy life compared with his, he is prepared to hate her, but instead the two of them form a strange kind of bond. She was an awkward teenager who spent the Swinging Sixties stuck in a convent school trying, dismally, to learn Latin. Lesley Cozens wrote Nicky a letter before she died, the contents of which the reader does not know until much later in the novel, but the letter triggers a rage in Nicky that could have had tragic consequences if Chloe had not got involved. No Virgin Series 2 primary works 3 total works Book 1 No Virgin by Anne Cassidy 3. As Chloe Cozens mourns the death of her mother, Lesley, teenage ‘delinquent’ Nicky Nelson experiences quite a different emotion towards her, his social worker, the one person he thought he could rely on when everyone else had let him down.