Andrina Carroll

A working class mother in 1957 England finds escape from her lonely and repressed existence in a secret relationship with her son’s female teacher.

E. Nesbit's classic novel of The Railway Children follows the story of Roberta (Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter, three sheltered siblings who suffer a huge upheaval when their father is falsely imprisoned. The children and their mother, now penniless, are forced to move from London to rural Yorkshire into a new home next to a railway line.