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Rosie Harris
Ever since she was eight years old, Katie has dreamed of getting away from the Cardiff slums where she lives. When her handsome but wicked father, Lewis, is imprisoned for…
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At eighteen, Kate Stacey accepts a post as nanny to Lady Helen Sherwood’s daughters, and falls passionately in love with Lady Helen’s brother, David. When the liaison is discovered, David…
Maureen Flynn is a woman with a secret. Sixteen years earlier, when she was a schoolgirl, something terrible happened to her. But the perpetrators of the shocking crime went unpunished…
When l4-year old Sara rescues her sister, Myfanwy, from the fire, which kills their mother, little does she realise the burden of responsibility she is taking on. Her father is…
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Life seems to alternate between periods of happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old Sheryl Williams after she marries dashing soldier Alun Powell, and times when bad luck and despair almost drown her…
When all hope is gone, are dreams enough? After losing both her parents, sixteen-year-old Merrion Roberts is left to bring up her baby sister. Unable to cope alone, she teams…
Karen and Tudor Morgan have moved to Cardiff in search of a new life. Karen gets a job, leaving her husband to look after their young daughter Delia, until, one…
Crippled by polio, young Winnie Molloy has little to look forward to in life. Her father, Trevor, adores her but she is neglected by her feckless mother, Grace. When war…
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 finds work in a…
Brenda O'Donnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. Widowed Sid Rawlins, the rag-and-bone man, says she can come and live with him and…
Her life was full of hardship and despair…When Molly’s father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. Despite…
After years of neglect by her mother, when her father comes home from sea and sets up as a carrier at the Liverpool Docks, Patsy dreams of being a proper…
When Lucy Patterson promises her dying mother that she’ll leave the comfortable home they’ve shared with her mother’s employer, Stanley Jones, to go and live with her Aunt Flo on…
Widow Jenny Langton reluctantly decides to downsize to a small flat. It’s difficult enough to start afresh, but her wayward granddaughter Karen’s antics threaten to spoil her new life. Jenny…
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…
Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for…
The only child of over-protective parents, Sarah Lewis yearns to leave home. Studying hard to please them, she earns a place at Cardiff University. Here she is swept off her…
It is 1914 and Christabel Blakemore is preparing for her wedding when she receives the news that her fiance has been drowned at sea. Heartbroken, she tries to piece her…
Fern Jenkins’ life is changed for ever when her brother is killed and her father dies. Fern and her mother Wynne are forced to seek a new life in Cardiff…
Lucy Collins and her brother Sam have lived side by side with the Tanner family all their lives. Until tragedy strikes when Lucy’s parents are killed in a car crash…
In spite of her father’s words of warning, Sharon Pritchard decides to give up everything to follow her heart. However, her new life with Hadyn is anything but easy. Although…
She must risk it all to keep them safe… Liverpool 1920s: Michael Quinn the cobbler returns home after the First World War forever changed by his experiences on the front…
Was she always to be fated in love…? When Gaynor’s God-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she’s certain she will never love again. And when her parents discover she’s…
Now in her seventies, widowed Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping, it marks the start of a…
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After the war, Kate Russell intends to marry a man with pedigree but meets Robert Campbell. Her family, outraged by their proposal, will only accept Robert if he climbs the…
Following a chance encounter with an American army officer in Liverpool, 21-year-old Megan Lloyd decides to do her bit for the war effort by establishing a place of refuge for…
Newly widowed after a forty-year marriage, Margaret Wright’s decision to make a fresh start by redecorating her home has unexpected consequences when talented interior designer Jason Parker enters her life…
Growing up in a quiet West Country village, butcher’s daughter Rebecca Peterson and her best friend Cindy Mason are keen to see more of the world - yet promise always…
When the war was over, Lieutenant Kate Russell would marry a man with a pedigree as sound as her own. Because confidence, beauty and privilege were advantages she took for…
Recently widowed after 50 years of marriage, Betty Wilson wants to remain fiercely independent and free of romance. But when the unwitting septuagenarian is faced with conmen and dangerous technology…
Liverpool, 1924. Racing to meet her fiance in a motor car, Penny knocks over a girl and, much to her fiance’s disapproval, takes her in. But Penny didn’t anticipate the…
Twins Tanwen and Donna Evans are as different as chalk and cheese. In 1924, when the girls are fourteen, their mother Gwyneth insists both become apprentices at The Cardiff Drapers…
Living in the shadow of their domineering father, Rhianon and Sabrina Webster plan two different futures. Edwin dotes on his youngest daughter, Sabrina, but it is steady Rhianon who holds…
Young Megan Williams has come to Liverpool in search of work and a fresh start. She falls deeply in love with dashing Miles Walker. Then, one fateful day, Megan’s world…
An accident will open her eyes to a world she never knew existed… Penny Forshaw is racing through the streets of Liverpool in her father’s new motor car, rushing to…