June Francis

Liverpool, 1928. Fifteen-year-old Annie Anderson was adopted by Sylvia and Hugh after the death of their own daughter. Annie is told that her own mother in childbirth and her father died before she was born. A chance encounter introduces Annie to local lad Andrew Fraser. Their friendship blossoms, but once Annie?s adoptive parents learn of it they forbid her from seeing him. When Annie asks why, it sets her on a path to discover more about her origins...

Following her grandfather's death, orphan Emma Booth assumes she is now without family, until the discovery of a letter written in 1940 reveals that her widowed father had, before his death at Dunkirk, married again and had another daughter. Determined to find her, Emma is drawn to Liverpool.

As the First World War rolls towards its end, Alice Bennett's relief at hearing her husband, Sebastian, is alive is tempered with concern that he is wounded, but when he finally comes home Alice learns that not all scars are visible and sometimes those you can't see are the hardest to heal... Meanwhile, Clara O'Toole's search for her missing Aunt Gertie brings her into contact with a whole new extended family. She is over the moon to find she has...

A beautifully eloquent and heartfelt tale of a young woman's search for independence and love in the bomb-scarred setting of post-war Liverpool.

1959. Her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an end, nineteen-year-old Maggie Gregory returns to her family in Liverpool to lick her wounds and decide what to do with the rest of her life. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger offers the possibility of new romance. But is the man who gives his name as Tim Murphy really all he seems? What secrets has he been keeping from Maggie? And will this...

Liverpool, 1955. Actress Dorothy Wilson is offered her first major part in a feature film. But her boyfriend Sam wants her to settle down and start a family. Meanwhile, Lynne Donegan is bringing up her daughter on her own, eking out a meagre living as a dressmaker. The two women's lives are destined to intertwine in ways they could never imagine.

Liverpool, 1958: Nursery nurse Irene Miller falls for her friend Peggy's handsome older brother, Marty. But he is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Meanwhile, Irene's friend Peggy is desperate to marry her long-term boyfriend Pete, but Peggy's staunchly Catholic parents would never accept a Protestant son-in-law. When her mother decides to remarry, her brother heads off to sea, and she loses her job, Irene feels utterly alone in the world. An unexpected...

Will she get another chance at happiness? Flora Cooke is struggling to raise her children alone amidst the ruins of war-torn Liverpool. With her husband, Tom, away fighting in the Second World War, she has only her unreliable sister to help her and she has almost given up hope. She is completely devastated when Tom is reported missing, presumed dead. As the months pass and she struggles to come to terms with her loss, Flora is swept off her feet by...