c 1960 to c 1969

1963: When Clara Samuels buys Butterfly Cottage, she knows the scandal she'll cause. A single woman buying property is not the 'done thing', especially not in a village like Carybrook. But Clara has been in love with Butterfly Cottage, and its garden, since she used to play there before the War. ...

Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow and a new life on the horizon. She's earned a fresh start. In Rome, Teddy will be good. She will wear the right clothes and the perfect lipstick and she will charm her husband's colleagues at the Embassy. And Teddy is...

Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances 'Frankie' McGrath has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path...