Arthur Craythorne has barely married Queenie May when he is called away to fight in the First World War. When he returns from the trenches, he is a changed man and his wife and two young daughters, Alice and Florrie, strive hard to steer clear of his agression and make him proud... Set against the unfolding of twentieth-century English history, 'Kissing Alice' is the darkly intimate story of intense rivalry between two sisters, in which the ties of love and hate, fear and jealousy, innocence and experience, have all become dangerously confused.