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History is not only about royalty and politicians. Few written histories adequately address the true human response to the tumultuous events they describe. In Portrait of a Century, Betty Boyden looks back over the twentieth century and reveals how major national and international events affected several generations of her own family. The book shows how her world was altered by global conflict, uneasy peace, and the wide-ranging social changes that accompanied the end of the Second World War. Viewing such a turbulent century through the eyes of one family allows us to see not a bygone world...

When the Second World War breaks out, young Lisette is sent from her hometown to spend the summer with the Drewery family in the Lincolnshire Wolds - and begins a love affair that will last a lifetime.

Helping out on Manor Farm, Liz quickly becomes best friends with Barbara -
a serious-minded young woman with academic aspirations - and her down- to-earth cousin, Walter. Barbara and Liz go to university together but lose touch after Liz and Walter marry... until, years later, Lisette receives a letter from Barbara asking if she can come to stay.

Now in their late sixties, Lisette, Walter...

Ruth is a small solemn girl, growing up surrounded by elderly relatives in the 1930s - when the world was such a different place. War breaks out and the world changes around her. Love is found and lost, more than once. Ruth is torn between two beloved homes, Devon and Lincolnshire, her grandmother Mady and her dearest great-aunt Stella. Oswin is a dear father whom Ruth can never quite respect as much as she would like to. Hilde is a friend at school who becomes part of Ruth's life so unexpectedly. And then there is Bill... Family, friends, home, history... sooner or later we all come Full...

Catherine Tilney, nee Morland, now the respectable wife of Henry Tilney, has pledged away her youthful quizzes and overactive imagination in favour of a more refined, genteel life style. Life as a reverend's wife is, after all, one of dignity and poise. But the unpredictable General Tilney seems set to ruin their pleasant newlywed bliss. So, when the opportunity comes to move to a new village and start afresh, without the burden of family ties threatening to knot at every corner, Catherine urges her Henry to take it. This new adventure will take her more than two hundred miles from everything...