Rose Alley is one of Liverpool’s worst slums – a place where hunger, filth and violence are a way of life.

It’s no place for proud Queenie Logan and her daughter Gillyflower. And...

Amy Pearson’s family is desperately poor, even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool. But they have each other; until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion...

Lally Fraser, widowed at twenty, with two sons to raise and little more than debts to live on, seeks comfort with dashing young mill-owner Roly Sinclair. Then he goes off to America and she...

Charlotte Drummond knows she has a duty to obey her father. Girls, especially well-bred upper-class ones, are expected to be submissive to the men in their lives. But Charlotte’s father is a...