Wait Till Summer In 1939, with the war having been declared, evacuees arrive in the small Welsh seaside town of St Davids Wells. When Eirlys Price convinces her parents to take in three young children, she never imagined it could lead to shocking family revelations which threaten all her future plans. Amidst homesickness, local gossip and the challenges of wartime, the community must pull together and wait until summer, when the town will come alive in all its seasonal glory Waiting For Yesterday Shirley Downs has always known she was no ordinary girl. But when she enters and wins a singing contest, she begins to realise that her talent is really something special. However, it is 1941, and a career on the stage comes second place to rationing and bomb threats. Nevertheless, Shirley is determined to succeed, and no-one will get in her way… Day Trippers St Davids Wells blossoms in the English tourist trade of the war years. The Castle family run the rides and stalls, struggling to manage without their absent sons, and amid tragedies and anxieties, there is time for what St Davids Wells does best fun and laughter. The House By The Brook Marie Masters has been happily married for nine years, but she cant help but feel her once-loving husband Ivor is no longer the man she married. Hes increasingly prone to drink and gambling, and has become strangely secretive. Worried that Ivors behaviour is putting their growing family at risk, Marie decides to follow her husband. A Girl Called Hope Married life hasn’t been easy for Hope Murton her mother-in-law, Marjorie, is overbearing and critical, and Hope’s husband, Ralph, refuses to stand up for himself. Eventually Hope persuades him to move out and to set up a new home at Badgers Brook with their small son, Davy. A New Beginning As the Second World War ends, Sophie Daniels quits the WAAF with nowhere to go. She wanders around the country searching for a place where she can settle, living in bedsits, barns, and small guesthouses in the meantime. Eventually she finds Badgers Brook, where she meets and befriends nine-year-old Bertie, neglected and running wild.