Sons Of Fortune

Plot

John Stevenson is created Baron Cleveland after near suicidal service to the Empire during the Crimean War. Thus the Stevensons join the ranks of nobility, but as John and Nora rise to new social heights, troubles magnify. Strong, loving, noble John ceases to exist as he takes up a navvy's sledgehammer anew only to apply it to his family relationships. The focus shifts to the rising generation of Stevensons: John Junior, nicknamed "Boy", and Caspar undergo the forming experiences that will shape their lives--school, mentors, love, tests of ability, coming of age while father John heavy-handedly decrees courses for them and their eldest sister Winifred that would surely mean profound misery for them all.