It is 1925 & the war is long over. But much has been lost & life will never truly be the same again.
Castle Deverill,
France, 1944.
Deep in the river valley of the Dordogne, in an old stone cottage on the edge of a beautiful village,
Autumn, 1917: Britain is just about surviving against incessant U-boat attacks, but there are mutinies in France, a revolution
...
Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away. Other women
- her daughters-in-law
- are usurping her position.