This is the story of two girls who live in a huge house owned by their late grandfather. When their mother relinquishes drink for the joys of frantic housework, Vicky and Blanche - somewhat...

Alice Rowlands lives with a father glowering ‘like a disappointed thunderstorm’, a fast-fading mother and a beastly menagerie in a dark house in 1930s Battersea. With her mother’s death,...

When her father dies, ten-year-old Frances, her mother and assorted siblings are taken under the wing of their horsey relations, led by bullying Aunt Lawrence. Their new home is small and they...