Laurie Graham

Meet Birdie Gibbs, seventh floor resident of an East End high rise. She lives on chocolate and yearns for action, especially when she remembers how she did her bit in the war. When the Fruit Bowl Estate boils over in the summer of 1995, Birdie gets all the action she can handle.

Wallis Simpson and Maybell Brumby go back a long way. In 1932 the two schoolfriends are re-united in London. We all know the story of the American divorcee who changed the British Royal Family, but no-one tells it like Maybell in her diaries!

Sel and Cled Boff live at home and make a living playing the clubs in Birmingham. Sel is the ladies man and the crooner, whilst Cled keeps to the background and plays the piano. When Sel decides he must take a chance on the bright lights of New york, Cled is forced to go with him.

Despite their fortune Dora Minkel despairs of ever finding a husband for her fun-loving, eccentric daughter Poppy. World War I opens up new horizons for Poppy, who invents her own life in step with the times she is living through. X rated, explicit sexual content.