Badgers Brook once again provides sanctuary for a family in need …

Married life hasn’t been easy for Hope Murton - her mother-in-law, Marjorie, is overbearing and critical and Hope’s husband, Ralph, refuses to stand up for himself. Eventually Hope persuades him to move out and to set up a new home at Badgers Brook with their small son, Davy.

Soon they are beset by tragedy when a road accident leaves Ralph confined to a wheelchair. He takes the only way out he can think of, leaving Hope destitute. Desperate not to return to her mother-in-law’s house, she turns to friends for help, including local trader Peter Bevan. Can Hope overcome all that befalls her? And will she ever find true happiness?