Item category 1: Family Saga

Three generations of Cazalets spend each summer in their family house. For two unforgettable summers they are safe from the storm clouds of World War II. These are sunlit days of childish games, lavish family meals and picnics on the beach.

Harriet is expected to marry Marcus Wellbury - a very eligible bachelor - and it is not something she has any real problem with. Not until she meets Godfrey Lester, that is. He may not have Marcus' wealth and standing, but he does set her heart racing.

This is Daphne du Maurier's warm, human saga of a family of craftsmen in 18th century France - with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a clamouring background against which their loves and their hopes are played out.

This novel tells the story of the intertwined fates of two families, and Lamartines and the Kashpaws. The women at the heart of this extraordinary community are survivors in a harsh and tumultuous world, united and sustained by the strength and diversity of their love.

Belinda Davis had trained as a nurse to assist her older brother, Doctor Luke. But as time goes by and she sees those she's grown up with getting married and settling into their own lives, Belinda becomes restless. What had seemed exciting and fresh becomes dull and routine. When she meets an eld...

Toby Fletcher, the innkeeper at Calico, finds Meg Staley wandering the moors and decides to take her in. There, Meg starts to rebuild her life. But then the secrets of Calico Road come crashing down on her and those she has grown to love. Will she and they be able to find a way to defeat an evil ...

Ruth, Lizzie and Heather each have their own reasons for greeting the end of the war with mixed feelings. For Ruth, it means she could lose Sammy, the evacuee boy she has come to love. Heather must adjust to the homecoming of her husband. And Lizzie is confronted by her own strength of will.

As the year of 1936 draws to a close, the Richardson and Grindley families prepare to celebrate the holiday season at home in Westmoreland. But as the clans gather, some deeply-buried family secrets are about to re-emerge, transforming the lives of everyone involved.