When friends of twelve-year-old Barbara Carter’s father were killed, their ten-year-old son, Steve, came to live with the Carters. Barbara had always wanted a brother — but now she wasn’t too sure.
Jenny Laidlaw who lived happily in a Children’s home was befriended by a wealthy widow Mrs. Dawson, who confided in Jenny that her baby daughter had been kidnapped years earlier and never seen again. Later Wendy Smith came to the home and she had the same distinctive birthmark as Mrs Dawsons daughter and connections to the town she was kidnapped from. Jenny decided she must turn the tough dishonest Wendy into a suitable daughter for the lonely and ailing Mrs. Dawson before revealing the secret
Jody Powell had slipped back in time to the 1880s when Deansbrook School was Deansbrook Orphanage. She swapped places with a look alike Katy Stanley for 24 hrs but the plan misfired and now the girls were trapped. Katy was enjoying her time in the present and was unaware of the situation.
Vera Halpin, a member of the suffragette movement, fighting for votes for women in the 1900s, was dismissed from her job as a maid in the home of Sir Giles Pansonby M.P. She had taken a job in a sweat-shop factory, where women worked long hours in terrible conditions for meager wages, which also happened to be owned by Sir Giles. Vera was determined to get better quality of life for the women working there.
Madcap Fiona Bailey, who is under contract to an advertising company to play the part of Polly Pender in a series of commercials for Pender’s Pure Products, could lose the job immediately if she attracted in bad publicity. Penny, Fiona’s sister had the thankless job of trying to keep Fiona under control.
Wanda Carlsson, a pupil at a Danish ballet school, vowed never to dance again after a dancing accident which she wrongly believed had crippled her friend, Ingrid Larsson. When she took a job in London as an au pair girl with the Bentley family, Mr Bentley found out her secret, and by telling her that Ingrid had died, forced her into agreeing to dance in a ballet contest to win publicity for his wife’s failing ballet school. He took her to see “Swan Lake”, where she met her former ballet mistress, Miss Eriksson, now, on holiday in London. Panic-stricken, Wanda fled from the theatre.
*Thanks to Goof for the information and cover picture
*Thanks to Goof for the information and cover picture
* Thanks to Goof for information and picture
* Thanks to Goof for information and picture