Rosemary Aitken

Twins Winnie and Dora are used to conflict. Professionally, their father cuts a controversial figure with his modern fishing techniques, whilst at home his temper rules the household. His one ambition for his daughters is that they should marry well.

Lizzie Treloweth is from a large family, who have to struggle to run their father's butcher's shop in Penzance, when he enlists in the army at the start of WW1. When Lizzie trains as a nurse she meets and befriends Tamsin Beswetherick, the daughter of the local gentry.

Set in the Cornish village of Penvarris, sixteen-year-old Wilhelmina has been offered the position of companion to Violet Gresham. Meanwhile Denzil Vargo and his mother are adjusting to life without Denzil's bullying father. The re-appearance of Sam Vargo shatters many hopes and dreams.

The Tregenza girls: Helena Tregenza, confined to home because of her blindness; her impulsive sister Lucy and her secret romance with James; and Maisie the maid who can’t afford to marry her beau, are soon to have their lives shattered by the First World War.

Victoria is the vicar's only daughter and she is beginning to chafe against the Edwardian conventions that restrict her life. With the local mining industry in decline, the story is a glimpse of life, love and loss in Cornwall in the 1900s.

'Sprat' leaves her native cornwall for London after breaking up wih her sweetheart, Denzil, and quarrelling with her family. There she meets a suffragette and Denzil's nemesis. But soon the excitement of London palls and she longs for home.