Song of Memories
Returning
to her Moscow apartment one bitterly cold day in 1937, Natalie Fisher finds the
place trashed and her family gone. Like so many in Stalin’s Russia they have
been arrested and probably killed. She has fallen in love with her second
cousin Stephan, a talented violinist. She has just discovered she is pregnant
and in despair goes to the British Embassy for help. There she meets diplomat,
Lawrence Sinclair, who proposes marriage as the only way to get safely back to
England. She accepts, convinced that Stephan is dead and worried about the
future of her baby.
Back
in England she tries to be a good wife to the much older and rather
old-fashioned Lawrence and mother to daughter Stephanie. But after being injured
when they are trapped in a bombed house, Lawrence discovers that he is not
Stephanie’s father and he and Natalie become estranged.
Over
the years, Natalie finds consolation in her daughter and her piano, often
playing an old Russian folk song - her ‘song of memories’. Stephanie inherits
Stephan’s gift for music and dreams of being a concert pianist.
Meanwhile
Stephan has survived incarceration in the Siberian gulag, escaping to America.
After the war, he returns to England and, unable to continue his career as a
violinist due to his sufferings in Siberia, he becomes a music teacher and
composer.
Each
holds on to the dream that the other has survived and that one day they will be
reunited.
More Precious than Jewels
Due
to a family feud, Grace has been separated from her childhood sweetheart, Adam,
a poor fisherman. When he joins a team of deep sea divers and goes away, Grace,
thinking he has deserted her, marries the man chosen for her by her parents.
She accompanies her new husband to India but soon learns that there are secrets
in his past. Adam also travels to India with the diving team and hopes he will
be able to reassure himself that Grace is well and happy.
But
she is in trouble. Will Adam arrive in time to help her?
Farewell Innocence
Orphan
Ruby knows no other life than the Foundling Hospital where she was brought up.
Sent to work as a kitchen maid for the wealthy Preston family, her life hardly
seems to have changed until she meets handsome policeman Jeremiah (Jerry)
Locker.
They
fall in love, but when she is assaulted by her employer’s son and finds herself
pregnant it seems there can be no future for her with Jerry. It seems things
cannot get any worse for her. But then she is accused of involvement in the
spate of burglaries in the neighbourhood.
Can
jerry prove her innocence and can Ruby overcome the stigma of an illegitimate
pregnancy?
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