Teresa Crane

Carrie arrives in Italy to claim her inheritance but finds she is not the only one interested in the Villa Castellini.

Set in Poland during the Second World War, this is a tale of sibling rivalry, jealousy and pride, and one woman torn between two men.

In 1918 wounded Kit Enevers befriends young Poppy Brookes but falls in love and elopes with her sister Isobel. A decade later, after receiving a troubled letter, Poppy travels to Siena to meet them again.

George Clough is a man of strong views and an explosive temper and his children react to their domineering father in different ways. His daughter, Christine, suffers when she falls in love with Liam McCarthy, a man George disapproves of.