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A portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new 20th century, with introductions by Susan Hill and Steven Connor.
Synopsis
Follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret.