Judith Lennox

Iris, Marianne, Eva and Clemency are all daughters of Sheffield manufacturer, Joshua Maclise. As war approaches and changes the sisters' lives, Clemency fights to free herself from the bonds that confine her and to discover love at last.

Set in London and Cornwall between the first and second World wars, this is a multi-generation family saga in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt with emotional repercussions.

1933. Tessa and Frederica Nicolson are enjoying one last idyllic summer at the beautiful Villa Millefiore, overlooking Florence. Four years later, Italy is a distant memory and with the outbreak of World War Two, Tessa and Freddie must fight for their own survival and happiness, while they wonder whether they will ever see each other again...

The Mulgraves are a rootless, bohemian family who are forced to return to the privations of wartime England after Germany's invasion of France.

For nearly half a century the Coles lived in Middlemere but were threatened with eviction in 1942. When her father failed to stop it, he shot himself in front of eight-year-old Romy. As she grew up she vowed to restore the family fortunes and rescue her mother from drudgery.

As the twentieth century draws to a close, Esme Reddaway knows that she must uncover a truth that began during the First World War, when Devlin Reddaway fell passionately in love with her sister, Camilla. But the war changes everything and Devlin returns to England to find that Camilla is engaged to someone else...

In 1914, whilst on holiday in France, Alix Gregory is blamed for the disappearance of her two year old cousin. Though she manages to pick up the threads of her life, Alix is constantly haunted by the loss of Charlie!

It is 1946 and the old families of the Temperleys and the Chancellors have been neighbours on the South Coast of England for many years. Now the younger generation has been touched by the Second World War. As the years go by, the family secrets come out, and it seems that the ties that bind can change relationships for ever...

In the spring of 1936 Kay Garland embraces an exciting new life of glamour when she becomes companion to Russian Konstantin Denisov's daughter, Miranda. But with the outbreak of war come death and destruction and, for both women, consuming passion, along with the fear of losing all that they hold dear.