With an atheist, Marxist father fighting for British Guiana's independence, and a radical feminist mother, Sharon Maas grows up in a liberal, progressive 1960s household with all the freedom she could possibly want. But with her divorced parents constantly working and often away, Sharon disappears into her favourite books, and imagines a world full of friends and adventure in a faraway country: England. Then, at ten years old, Sharon travels halfway...

A group of girls attending a boarding school experiences the joys and the trials of adolescence under the guiding hand of housemother Edna Garrett.

Growing up, Adrien and his sister, Grace, competed viciously for everything. It wasn't easy being the adopted sibling, but Adrien tried to get along; it was Grace who didn't want anything to do with him. When their scientist parents died in a terrible lab fire, there was nothing left to hold them together. Now, after years apart, Adrien and Grace are forced to reunite at the elite boarding school where their parents were teachers. Being back around...