The Winter House

Three girls growing up in the Fens between two world wars would meet, winter or summer, at an old wooden house by the waterside to confide all their secrets and heartaches. There was Robin, idealistic and clever, destined for Cambridge; Maia, beautiful and ambitious, looking for a rich husband; and quiet Helen, living under the seemingly benevolent tyranny of her widower father, the local vicar. Adulthood separates the three girls, and Robin, abandoning ideas of university, goes to London to work amongst the poor, meeting there her first great love. Maia's ideal marriage ends in tragedy, and Helen, meanwhile, has her very sanity threatened.