At 16, Sue Starr had a promising career as an actress. After seeing a road accident she decided to change careers and become a nurse instead. Her Stepfather, stepsister Karen and Agent Lena Mellor were all unhappy with the change and wanted to stop her.
Joanna West had been chosen to star in a shampoo advert. She didn’t know that her older sister, Lindsay, who wanted the job herself was very jealous.
Nora lived with foster parents, a traveller family called the McCarthys. They travelled all over Britain, wherever there were crops to be gathered. Nora was attending Staffleigh School, but now she couldn’t go because Gil McCarthy had sold her uniform.
It was thought that either Poppy Summers or Queenie Brown was the missing heiress to the Winters estate. But the sudden switch from rags to riches was taking its toll on the girls.
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In Britain, in the year 1940, after her father was lost a sea Nancy Nelson, went to live at Morvel Mansion, along with several evacuees. The manor house was really an old people’s home and there was often trouble between the young and the old. Later Nancy becomes convinced her father is actually alive. She is proven right but it appears her father is working for the Germans. Despite the evidence Nancy refuses to believe her father is a traitor.
When the rough and ready Barker family inherited Janner Hall, Walter the Dalmatian, who was part of the inheritance was appalled. Then Aunt Flo Pooter arrived and began smoothing off their rough edges and Walter was better pleased. He considered her to be one of his “own sort”.
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Molly Mason had just left school but she soon found herself a very responsible job as “mother” to fifty unruly lads at Burleigh School for Boys. Despite her slight build she managed the boys better than any of the teachers.
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Fern had lived all her life alone on Seal Island, where she learned the language of animals and plants. So a legend grew that she was half fish, half girl. Fern had left her island and was being hunted like an animal, but she had also made two friends Tom and his cousin Rachel.
Sarah Lane and Jane Wood had been given the parts of sisters in a weekly TV period drama, as grandchildren of the Earl of Dunlea. Unfortunately while they played loving sisters in front of the camera, in real life the girls had taken a bitter dislike to each other.
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