It is 1995, and brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone, except her own ghoulish mother. This means that things aren’t easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband and 12-year-old daughter....

Dinah and her sister are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family, and it’s a time of dreadful change.

Bright, stylish Katherine is offered a place to study philosophy by Jacob Goldman because of her unusual views on Jane Austen’s ‘Emma'. She little expects to find herself in the Goldmans’...