Back Home
The war in Europe is over, but the one at home has only just begun. The Second World War is ending and throughout Britain, evacuees are returning home to their families - but not the families they remember. Like so many other women, Peggy’s life has been transformed by the war. Living and working with good friends, she is happier than she has been for years. Yet Peggy’s life is not the only one changed by the war. Her daughter, Rusty, has just returned from the U.S., where she has been living as an evacuee for the last five years. After so long abroad, her home in England has become unrecognizable. Just as Peggy begins to restore normal family bonds, her husband returns from the war, damaged and desperate to make everything as it was before. Adapted from the novel by Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight, Mister Tom, Back Home is the story of a family who struggle to make sense of their new lives in a world irrevocably altered by the far-reaching effects of war.
Release Date: 2001-10-22
Sarah Lancashire
Peggy Dickinson
Jessica Fox
Virginia 'Rusty' Dickinson
Stephanie Cole
The Honourable Lady Beatrice 'Beattie' Langley
Jack Pierce
Mitch
Rosemary Leach
Mrs. Dickinson
Adrian Lukis
Roger Dickinson
Joan Blackham
Miss Bembridge