As Barney Davidson watched the liner sail away with his beloved family on board, bound for America, he stood a devastated and broken man. His dream was over, but theirs was just beginning.

Jinnie is a child from a one-night liaison between Louise Hunter’s husband, Ben, and Louise’s sister, Susan. When Ben takes his own life, and Susan deserts the newborn child, Louise puts aside...

Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour fourteen–year–old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Yet her path to...

Ada Williams was once an ambitious woman who believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now, she is all alone in the world, except for her greedy, bitter son Peter, who despises her...

Three strangers are thrown together by chance. It’s an encounter which is destined to change all of their lives for ever.

Ben Morris is deeply unsettled when he makes the...

In the summer of 1952, two strangers arrive in the pretty seaside hamlet of West Bay. Tom Arnold lost his wife and two children when the car he was driving was deliberately run off a seaside road...