The Second World War has ended, but not the battles waged daily on the domestic front A deeply troubled family are living in genteel poverty and unremitting strife in their shabby seaside house....

Fairacre's retired schoolmistress was looking ahead joyfully to an easier way of life. But right from the start Miss Read receives lots of advice on how to spend it. Then there are the many...

From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters created a world in which we still live- the intense, passionate world of ‘Jane...