The young Prue Shackleton travels from London to Cornwall to visit her beloved aunt Phoebe, who has just become a widow. On the train she meets Charlotte, a sad little girl who comes from a broken home.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Karussell des Lebens

10,000 marks - that is how much it would cost Erika Kornfeld to undergo breast reconstruction after a long-ago cancer operation. However, the 65-year-old pensioner does not have this money and neither the lady from the health insurance company nor her relatives show much understanding for her desire to be a "whole woman" again. Erika's best friends Dorle and Ilse are quite different. They are determined to help her financially. With all sorts of clever tricks and a good portion of chutzpah, the bon Vivian's had always managed to treat themselves to something despite a small bankroll. Now the senior citizens are doing small jobs to finance Erika's operation: They rent out their old Ford Taunus as advertising space, sell crocheted doilies or advertise incontinence panties. But all imagination is in vain, you don't get the money until the planned surgery date. In this situation, Ilse and Dorle develop astonishing criminal energy in order to find the missing sum: They rob a casino with a pistol made of cookie dough and chocolate icing. That brings a lot of money, but at the same time big trouble is not long in coming. Because while Erika seems to find the right man in the likable Fred, of all people, the casual Ilse lets the windy charmer Karl turn her head. But for Erika at some point the question arises anyway whether she really needs a new breast for her late happiness.

Altweibersommer

William Milhouse and his brat sister Miranda are uprooted from London city life when mother Kate accepts a job with Arnold Talbot, the best friend of their late father Henry, who expected to wed her. The Milhouses stay on the grand Devonshire estate of widowed lady Augusta Pritchett, whose grumpy butler Humphrey claims to hate children. Engineer Geoffrey Hynes strikes an instant friendship with William, which is however cruelly sabotaged as well as a crucial contract by his ex Vivian Palmer out of jealousy when he falls in love with Kate.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Küste der Träume

For the career of her husband, Irina has renounced her journalistic career and has become a housewife. After countless job-related processions, the two return to their hometown of Munich to finally start a family. When Reinhard has to leave for New York in the short term and leaves his wife with empty accounts and a debt mountain, Irina is forced to take the initiative for the first time. She founds a housekeeping agency. Her old school friend Frank stands by her side.