It's a Great Life

The discovery of a cache of love letters, evidence of an intense courtship, led to an exploration of the author's, and his husband's, parents' and grandparents' ordinary lives in ordinary times.

One comes to realise that there is no such thing as 'ordinary'.

Nicolas (Nick) Cressey was born in the Catholic St Francis Nursing Home in Stoneygate, Leicester to a Jewish mother and an agnostic father, the middle of three children. He grew up in a large comfortable home with dogs, loving parents and grandmother, an older brother who teased him into asthma attacks and a younger sister who adored horses. A very normal childhood for the times.

But doesn't everyone assume that their life is 'normal'...?

So where do a priest's son transported to Australia, a beef Baron and a wicked Viscount fit in?