This Midlands saga spans the period from 1930 to 1990. Tragedy strikes the Fennel family when Frank Fennel is incapacitated in an accident in Chilverton, Coventry. The shadow of the family's poverty affects the children, whose fates are linked by lov...
Marta is beautiful and wayward: Ann, quiet and reserved. Both are in love with the handsome and bitter Ken. Yet Ann knows he loves Marta. The war intervenes and Ken is taken prisoner in Germany. He eventually returns, dreaming of the new world he wil...
Rosaleen Grey has run away to a Warwickshire village, where she meets twin brothers - Michael, the clergyman, and Gabriel, who grows roses. Their domineering Gran warns her to stay away from Gabriel, but no one will explain the mystery surrounding hi...