It’s 1935. Tamar Fell has no family – or so she’s been told – and she relies on the friends she makes as she’s dragged from lodging house to lodging house by her mother – the reckless, beautiful Sadie....

Sarah runs taste panels at the local supermarket where six complete strangers meet every Thursday to taste Christmas puddings and cakes. Week by week we are involved with the lives of these different characters. From, two elderly ladies at...