Ivy Edmunds and her family relocate at her husband's insistence from a recently allocated modern council house near the sea to a shabby terrace in a south Wales mining village, to escape bombing during WWII. Ivy is loath to go at first but gradually her opinion of her new surroundings changes.

• The House
• The Lie of the Land
• Reluctant Acceptance
• In Rooms
• The Holiday
• Grampa
• The Green Glass Jug
• Beginning to Settle
• First Christmas
• Vera’s History
• Ankle-Strapped Shoes
• Elsie-May Pierce
• High Hopes
• In Trouble Again
• St Mark’s
• Mr Merryman
• Infant School
• Doctor Treadwell
• Ivy Sends for Bessy-Ann
• The Crisis
• Diagnosis Confirmed
• The Fever Hospital
• The Gipsies’ Remedy
• Full Acceptance
• Vincent Griffiths
• Recruitment
• Olicka Bolicka
• A Letter from Liverpool
• The Glass Of Port
• Ivy’s Solution
• Another Spring
• Tragic News
• Dealing with Death
• Still No Tears
• Getting Things Ready
• Uncle Joe
• The Catharsis
• The Two Sisters
• The Children’s View
• The Funeral
• Evacuees
• Cock-a-Reeling
• Cracking the Shell
• Pearl Harbour
• Albert’s War
• Albert and Carrie’s Night Out
• The Gathering
• Pink Bluebells
• The Target
• The School Holidays
• Ivy Steps In
• Mr Merryman’s Decision
• Twins in the Family
• Jim Starts the Ball Rolling
• Herculean Journeys
• The Central Welsh Board Exam
• The Yanks are Coming
• Prejudice
• The Special Occasions
• A Visitor Calls to Duke Street
• The Long Walks
• Plans for a Picnic
• Let’s Make Chips
• Shall We Dance?
• The House to Themselves Again
• Their Final Meal
• The Last Night at the Hall
• The Last Glimpse
• Seeds of Doubt
• Waiting for the Post
• Vera’s Secret
• The Worst Nightmare
• More to Come
• Mr Merryman’s Demise
• The Secret’s Out
• Carrie’s Reaction
• The Only Way Out
• Carrie Sets Madge Straight
• The Budding Entrepreneur
• All Together
• The New Life
• The Best Of News
• A Finger of Guidance
• The Age-Old Lullaby
• Home at Last
• Celebrations and Gorse Wine
• Ivy Meets Annabelle
• A Terrible Accident
• Getting Things Ready Again
• A Bath of Sweat
• Birdy Catches Liz
• The Job
• Two Choices
• The Future