Product Review

As Seen on PBS

Based on K.M. Peyton's Award Winning Trilogy of Novels

England in the early 1900s. The story begins as Christina (Christine McKenna) is sent to live with her domineering, crippled Uncle Russell (Edward Judd - The Hound of the Baskervilles) and her cousins Mark (Steven Grives - The Sandbaggers) and William (Alan Parnaby - The Pickwick Papers) at Flambards, a rambling, decaying mansion. Life at Flambards is a conflict of cultures, with Mark and his father clinging to a traditionalist obsession for horses, whilst William, clever and sensitive, dreams of a career in the new technology of aviation. It is into this class-conscious, male-dominated household, fraught with family friction, that Christina arrives - and her presence generates a changing pattern of events and relationships.