As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children, the day that ne'er-do-well husband Bert walks out on his family as rent day draws near is a particularly dark time. In the wake of his desertion, the family pull together to find their way forward, and Jane takes the steps she needs to get a divorce and free them all from Bert in the future. With help from a neighbour who is not all she seems, a lucky...

It's 1940 and, as London battles the hardships of war, Rose Brown, a young widow grief-stricken by her husband's death on the Western Front, decides to put aside her own personal sadness and take a job as a postwoman. Out and about in the shabby, war-torn streets, she's reminded that she isn't the only one coping with sorrow.

In the second instalment of the charming Corner House Girls series, Lilian Harry has crafted another tale of ordinary families facing the horrors of war, bringing people, events and history alive in her inimitable way.

Historical, domestic and sexy, this is a story of war, meat and desire on the home front, set in South London's dark and dirty wartime streets during World War I.

Returning to England after the war Gilbert Joseph is treated very differently now that he is no longer in an RAF uniform. Joined by his wife Hortense, he rekindles a friendship with Queenie who takes in Jamaican lodgers. Can their dreams of a better life in England overcome the prejudice they face?