Elizabeth Waite

In the 1930s, Emma Pearson and her family offered a rural holiday to two orphaned children....

Like most in London's 1920s East End, Joan Baldwin has her crosses to bear....

In 1951 London thrills to the Festival of Britain, but not Evie Smith. Mistress to Ted Hopkins, marriage is still just a dream....

Set in the East End of London and in Surrey, Time Will Tell opens towards the end of World War II, during an air-raid. Joan gives birth to a son just as a bomb hits the hospital....

Barbara's first chance comes in 1945. A barrister's daughter, she runs away to marry her sailor sweetheart in secret, ignoring her parent's disapproval. When the marriage falls violently apart, she returns home and tries to rebuild her life. Then a second chance of happiness comes her way.

Ella has lived in the East End of London all her life, and when her husband determines to move to Epsom to be near the racecourse, Ella's refusal to join him breaks up their tempestuous marriage....