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When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder. For even on the day when she has promised to forsake all
Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided to End It All. She has cleaned her cottage, given away her beloved pet goose and burnt any incriminating letters. Now all that remains for her to do is eat
Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to wail out across London. She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger called Evelyn, frail a
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last
Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth. Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfi
Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again. We lived our ups and downs but life was never boring'. Eric Siepmann was her second husband and their correspondence
Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town whilst her parents prepare to depart for life in colonial India. There she befriends the locals, acquires an exte
Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid the shame it will bring. Determined to raise her child, she flees into the night with only her m
Matilda Poliports mand er død og forholdet til hendes fire voksne børn er nærmest ikkeeksisterende. Der er ikke meget tilbage for Matilda at leve for, så nu har hun besluttet at afslutte det hele. Hun har gjort huset rent, givet sin elskede kæledyrsgås væ
Henry Tillotson er en empatisk og generøs mand, som udover sit smukke landsted har arvet sin fars filantropiske holdninger. Under en rejse til Egypten redder han Margaret fra et katastrofalt ægteskab og bringer hende med hjem til England som sin nye hustr
Bob Carew er en festlig, om end uansvarlig mand med talent for damer og væddeløb. På sit dødsleje beder han sin datter Poppy arrangere en passende festlig afsked hos Furnivals Fornemme Begravelser. Efter hans død opdager Poppy til sin store overraskelse
Syttenårige Juno har netop vinket farvel til både sin familie og de to unge mænd, hun har elsket mest i sit liv. Anden verdenskrig raser og moderen og stedfaderen er rejst til Canada, mens de to mænd er sendt i krig for at forsvare deres land mod nazister
Hebe sidder i mørket og lytter til sin bedsteforældre og ældre søskende diskutere, hvordan hendes uventede graviditet skal afsluttes. Familien vil af med skammen over den uønskede graviditet, men Hebe er fast besluttet på at få barnet. I ly af natten flyg