This international award winning adaptation of Catherine Cooksons best selling book of the same name should delight Ms. Cooksons devoted fans and anyone else who enjoys period pieces in which class conflicts are the central theme.Set in England in the 1840s a desperate widow with three children two boys and a girl takes the post of housekeeper to a crusty member of the gentry who lives in solitary shabby splendor in a home that has seen better days. Living in genteel poverty he is intrigued by the fact that his housekeeper and her children are literate. Moved by this family who has infused some interest into his formerly desiccated life he decides to dedicate some personal effort to educating the children.   ... >>