Ok part 2 guess the book! Or play? Or song?

[Seasawride]

But only fair you say which it is at the beginning

Song!

Anyone with a teenage dd cannot bare to listen

Was a film too.

My dear papa lavished attention upon me and I grew up rather petted and spoilt

Unfortunately we fell on hard times and papa went bankrupt

The love of my life's father forbade him to marry me and when I was widowed he rejected my son.

We live in poverty and now my FIL has come back and wants to take my son from me and raise him as his heir. He's a CF but I have no choice

As a side note, I regret introducing my friend from school to polite society she tries it on with everyone and anyone and scandal trails in her wake

Seas

Need more info

Mr Stark, that sounds a bit like Little Lord Fauntleroy, but I don't remember the friend from school.

Seas the song that anyone with a teenage DD can't bear to listen slipping through my fingers from mamma Mia?

MrStark Are you Amelia Sedley from Vanity Fair?

Would that be Vanity Fair (tho' it did sound like Little Lord Fauntleroy)? The friend sounds like Becky Sharpe.

My father made a mess of his finances and is now dead, leaving me penniless. My brother offered me a home, but he would have treated me as a drudge, so I preferred to work as a governess.

Due to a misunderstanding on my way to take up a new appointment, I now find myself entangled with an autocratic nobleman, his staid middle brother and charming but irresponsible youngest brother. And a dog. And if that wasn't enough, I find that the house I'm staying in may be being used by spies and traitors!

seasawride was the song Young Girl by Gary Puckett (?) and the Union Gap? I don't remember the film though.

I've read Lingosses I think as ever the bloody name escapes me

Mine was Vanity Fair

No ‘slipping through my fingers’

Years ago we had the police knock while dd was on a school trip.

They couldn’t tell us if dd was alive or dead for 2 hours and 43 mins.

Dd is great alive and fearless :)

I'm going to try and do a film

I'm dating this man from work - a real breath of fresh air, exciting and innovative, I thought things were really going somewhere and we were going back to his place for sex

When we got there he had bunk beds and loads of toys he was embarrassed when we kissed and didn't take things further.

Is it me? Should I give him another chance or run in the other direction?!

When I was young I foolishly married a man I didn't love to please my father. My husband and his family were very rich and snobbish. I always felt that they looked down on me because all I had was my looks.
Because I was so unhappy I had an affair. When my husband found out things got very ugly and I left him. We both eventually remarried and had children.
Now my DH has met his DD and I am worried that they might start a relationship
Neither of them know our family history.

@Tanith- no problem- it is interesting to read different perspectives from the same book!

I knew it wasn't Rear Window- but I can't think what it is then?

In fact, I have hit a right dead end- none of these last ones sound even remotely familiar to me :(

Mr Stark, is yours a bodyswap story? I vaguely remember a couple, but can't recall details.

Yes, technically

Mr stark....big?

Yes.

Another film

Am I being unreasonable to sleep with this unusual guy I met at work even though he's just eaten my neighbours cat ?

OK, a bit more of a clue from the same book, but a difference character:

I'm a seasoned burglar. Loads of experience, been inside a bit, but I'm a top professional at what I do. And I've seen everything - or I thought I had.

Last night's job seemed a cinch and it all went like clockwork. I timed it well - empty flat. I blew the safe to coincide with the New Year fireworks. No-one heard a thing. I made away with the diamonds and the briefcase.

It's the briefcase that's causing the problem, or rather the Top Secret papers I found in it.
What the hell do I do? I hate traitors worse than anything and I'd drop the scum in it quicker than blink, but how can I do that without giving myself away?

Ils Small House in Allington?

Drudge - The Forsyte Saga?

Tanith sounds like Raffles. Could be a Holmes I haven't read?

Mine's a book.

I've had two mothers in law after a divorce and a widowhood. I thought I'd found a third MIL when one of her sons proposed but he backed out on the day of the wedding. Now her elder sons seems to be fond of me and her daughter has always loved me. And we all love the sea ....

No, not Sherlock Holmes. It's set in the early 80s and is not quite so well known as the author's household name novel, also made into a film in the 60s.

MissLingoss - The Reluctant Widow?