Westover - Richmal Crompton

When Julia Gideon Is Widowed During The Second World War With Five Children To Look After, She Is Left To Manage Westover House With Insufficient Means For Its Upkeep. Urged By Her Solicitor Brother To Downsize And Turn The Family Home Into Flats, She Reluctantly Agrees. However, As Her Tenants Move In It Soon Becomes Clear That The Manor House Cannot Contain The Fiery Personalities That Are Now Living Under Its Roof.from The Hard Up Godfrey And His Wife Cynthia, Who Must Share A Flat With His Brother Hubert And The Uncouth Trixie; To Julias Elderly Aunts, Letitia And Lucy, Who Aspire To Very Different Lives In Their Old Age; And The Faux-french Mrs Pollock Whose Overbearing Presence In Her Daughter Ann-maries Life Is Protective To The Point Of Suffocation - Life Is Anything But Simple At Westover.