Catherine Cookson - The Cinder Path (1995)

Description

Three part drama series based on Catherine Cookson's million bestseller. A year before the outbreak of the First World War, Charlie MacFell returns from university to Northumberland, to visit the farm where he spent an unhappy childhood and where his brutal father would subject young farm hands to vicious beatings on the hot cinder path. Marriage to the beautiful but adulterous Victoria Chapman turns out to be a further humiliation for Charlie, but when he joins the army he discovers he never knew existed. Respected now by his family and by his men on the battlefield, he finally finds true love with his wife's younger sister. Just as lasting happiness is within his grasp, fate seems poised to take it all away....