The bonds between women are hard to break. Tomboy Joan Ogden just wants to move to London, study medicine, and live with Elizabeth. But her mother has other ideas. She wants her to remain at home, and stay away from a career, men, and especially wome…

He must escape. <br/> Illegitimate and orphaned, Gian-Luca is brought up by his Italian grandparents in their prosperous salumeria in Old Compton Street, Soho. Here, surrounded by plenty – by bottles of Chianti in straw petticoats, by pasta and garli…