Hopscotch Summer

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child, content to work hard at school, and to play hopscotch with her friends in the run-down Nechells area of Birmingham in the 1930s. But her life is turned upside down when her mother, Cynthia, has another baby, and doesn't seem able to cope.

It is 1946: The war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures, with each facing life with all its joys, sorrows, and surprises.