OK: posted history of Emma - daughter of Neil and Susan. Susan has a bit of the "pushy mother" about her, and wanted Susan to reach the dizzy heights - go to college, get a "nice job" in an office, etc etc. Susan comes from the "orrible Horrobin" family - feckless and with the real bad uns. Emma had different ideas, went to college to learn catering, which didn't go down very well with Susan.
The Grundys are the "salt of the earth" dirt poor farmers, always wheeling & dealing. Clarrie and Eddie have the two boys - William - the White Sheep of the family who shocked his father & grandfather by becoming a trainee gamekeeper when they had always been the "respectable poachers", and Edward, the "bad lad" of the family, always put down by his big brother.
Whilst William & Emma had been sweethearts for a long time, since William started work, Edward was Emma's school mate, sat together at school and confided in each other etc etc etc.
One night Emma wanted to go to a party which William didn't want to go to & she went with a couple of the girls (Kirsty and Brenda). Kirsty & Brenda paired off with a couple of lads, Emma phoned her dad to pick her up & take her home when Ed turned up in William's car (which Ed had "borrowed" for the evening ;) ) . He said he'd take her home but on the way home they had an accident, in which Emma was trapped, badly hurt. Ed managed to get her out, burning his hands badly in the process.
Eventually Emma recovered, Ed was sent to Detention Centre for taking & driving a car with no licence. William asked her to marry him, she accepted, and everything seemed to be going well. But Ed still hankered after her and, on her hen night, very drunk, she turned up at the place where Ed was staying & slept with him

. Ed was heartbroken that she said it was all a mistake, and that she was still marrying Will, and managed to go to Hungary to work just before the wedding. Six weeks later, Emma realised she was pregnant, she married Will, knowing full well that Ed could be the father of the baby she carried.
She let Will believe the baby was his, they seemed to settle into a life of blissful domesticity, until Ed reappeared from Hungary just before Emma popped. After baby George was born, Emma realised the restricted life she had was not what she wanted, and when Ed said he was going to go to Australia, she told him EVERYTHING, how she realised she had made a mistake, George was his, she wanted to be with him, not Wills, yadda, yadda yaddda.
The story goes on ;)
(Ill bet you're sorry you asked :D
Margot