When a plan to better his family's situation leaves Jerry to bring up his children on his own, it's the people of the Four Streets who rally to help mend his spirits.

The O'Neils keep watch over their one remaining young son, Seamus. Hardworking and good-hearted, they cling together and help not just each other, but a community of dock workers. Meanwhile, Rosh Allen mourns the loss of Phil, her husband. Aided and impeded by her mother, she struggles to raise three children.

Katie's full of trepidation as she arrives in Liverpool for her first posting. She is there to do a job and has no interest in romance, which is just fine with Luke, son of the household she is billeted with. Then the bombs begin to rain in Liverpool and everyone, from oldest to youngest, must realise what matters most in life.

Liverpool, 1901. The Tempest family is all but destitute, barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill with pneumonia and Arthur is imprisoned after a drunken fight, their thirteen-year-old daughter Lizzie finds herself parentless, desperate and alone. Despite her young age, Lizzie has spirit and determination, and she knows that she must find work to keep herself off the streets. In a stroke of luck, she gets a job in the match factory,...

The Ryan family in Liverpool lose everything when a fire destroys the coal haulage business upon which they depend for a living. They turn to Connor, a relative from Ireland, for help, but will his drunken tyranny destroy the family?

From the popular author of The Liverpool Rose, this novel follows the fortunes of Hester Lowe as she struggles to make her way in 1930s Liverpool.

In equal measure gritty and tender, Coming Home to the Four Streets is the fourth instalment in the Four Streets saga, from Sunday Times bestseller Nadine Dorries. Summer is coming to the four streets - but so is trouble, especially for its redoubtable women, who've struggled through a bitter winter to put food on the table. The Dock Queen Carnival is only weeks away, but there's no money for the usual celebrations. No sign of a tramp ship with illicit...

Comfortably settled into his expatriate life in post war Britain, headmaster Theodore's secrets are set to remain deeply buried. Until she breezes in. Tia Bellamy cuts through his reserve and, for the first time in years, Theo finds himself able to confront his past and reveal the events carved onto his heart and seared into his soul. Together they form a strong bond, closely befriending Maggie Stone and her granddaughter, little Rosie. However, Theo...

It is August 1914, and the threat of war weighs heavily on the people of Liverpool, but not on Sarah. Toby is in love with her. When he joins the army, she is left facing insurmountable obstacles, but she finds light at the end of the tunnel.

Rather than focusing on the tragic events of her upbringing, Crissy uses this evocative, characterful book to paint a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up in working-class Liverpool in the sixties and seventies.