Susan Hampshire

A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels-called the finest sequence of fiction ever written about British Parliamentary life.

The continuing struggles of Archie MacDonald, a successful London restauranteur who is called back to his historic home Glenbogle in the Scottish Highlands to take his rightful place as Laird of the manor.

Old friends come to visit. Love is in the air for both young and old in Glenbogle. But nothing is as is seems on the Scottish estate. Will they all live happily ever after?

David Copperfield looks back at his life, from his childhood as an orphan to manhood in Victorian England.

"The fortunes of the MacDonalds have always been up and down, but now Paul, Archie's brother, is newly installed as master of Glenbogle. Can this town come to terms with the new monarch?"