The heart has its own language.Summer in January. Birds with unknown songs. People with strange accents.In 1932, Eliza Sparrow walks straight off the boat from England to New Zealand into a nightmare....

In 1941 May Lewis is looking for a fresh start. Leaving the city and an old love affair behind, she buys a medical practice in a small country town. Here she hopes to find peace, friendships, and the...

Fran is a successful single woman with friends, a social life, and a bookshop. If there is anything she feels is lacking - well there is always time for that later. She's content, even if she hasn't found...

Every lover has her story, and every town has its secrets.It's 1946 in New Zealand, and Alice Holden has fallen for the woman delivering her milk every morning. Jean has a way about her, a swagger, honey-sweet...