Pamela is a divorced mother whose son has, at last, left home. She feels free, but also lonely and restless. There have been 3 men in her life - all of whom have begun to think of Pamela in romantic terms again. But which one should she take up with?

Sheila Harrison always looks forward to the descent of the summer visitors to her house in Blythney, East Anglia. But she is not prepared for the upheaval caused by one young girl, Anansi, who arrives from a background Sheila can only guess at.

Ill-matched, yet passionately attracted, the stormy relationship of Callum and Maris is threatened by the violent upheaval of events around them as the Depression years of the 1930s give way to World War II.