When her father comes home from sea and sets up as a carrier at the Liverpool Docks, Patsy dreams of being a family again. But he is killed in an accident, and Patsy must keep the business going...

Returning from the war, handsome Michael Quinn the cobbler is a changed man. Admired and liked by his customers, he is a tyrant at home, ruling his family with a rod of iron and a fist of steel....

When seventeen-year-old Ruth Davies' father is invalided out of the Great War, the whole family has little choice but to move to the infamous Tiger Bay area of Cardiff. Not only are they faced...

When Gaynor's god-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. But a young German soon helps her to forget her sorrows. Until, with the war...

Life seems to alternate between periods of stunning happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old Sheryl Williams after she marries dashing soldier Alun Powell, and times of bad luck and despair. When...

Fern Jenkins' life is changed forever when her brother is killed in action and her father dies in a mining explosion.

Turned out of their home by the ruthless pit owner, Fern and her...

Abbie Martin has grown up in squalor in one of Liverpool’s most deprived areas. The youngest of three, she longs to be loved by her mother, but Ellen spends all her time with her eldest son,...

Finding herself pregnant, Julia Winter is forced to leave home rather than bring shame on her family. Reduced to living in the slums of Liverpool, she eventually finds work in a respectable hotel...

One last word of warning, my girl. Keep well away from that Hadyn Jenkins.' In spite of her father's words of warning, Sharon Pritchard decides to give up everything to follow her heart. However,...

Crippled by polio, young Winnie Molly has little to look forward to in life. Her father, Trevor, adores her but she is neglected by her feckless mother, Grace.

When war comes, Trevor is...

Lucy Collins and her brother Sam have lived side by side with the Tanner family all their lives. Lucy and Robert Tanner long for the day when they can marry and the future is full of promise for...

When Molly’s father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. Despite many difficulties, Molly is determined to make a better life for...