The Facts of Life tells the story of the Vines, an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during and after the second world war.
Presided over by an indomitable matriarch, the sisters live out tangled and fraught lives built on loyalty and betrayal, love and frustration, fear and hope. Lives informed by family wisdom and sometimes harsh tradition.
From the hallucinatory horror of the night the Luftwaffe levelled Coventry, via the everyday tensions of a family just scraping through in wartime, to a bizarre interlude in …