Time moves on. Children grow up, fall in love, get married and have their own children. Take a girl called Sophie. She's an orphan and is brought up for the first few years of her life by a grandmother who doesn't really want her. Will she find someone to give her proper care and attention? Will she create a loving home of her own when she grows up?

And what of those who dream of drastically changing the pattern of their lives? This is just what Richard and Janice do when they buy a beautiful farmhouse in Cornwall and convert it into a holiday centre. How do they cope with all the hard work?

You meet many such characters in these charming stories which quickly transport you to different worlds and different times. These are ordinary people, faced with life's choices and life's problems like all of us.