A Radio 4 dramatization, first broadcast in 1984, of Dickens's last completed novel. Conveying the murky grimness of Victorian London and the dankness of Thames-side low life, it is a satire on wealth and its corrupting power, symbolized by the inheritance of a dust-heap.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.