Ruth Hamilton

Kate Owen is a woman fleeing from the past. Leaving a rewarding job in London, she’s uprooted her life and given away her daughter to keep them both safe. Damaged from a traumatic event that broke her family apart, she attempts to find peace in Liverpool....

The O'Neils, who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End, keep watch over their one remaining young male, Seamus....

When Matthew’s beloved wife Molly died, long before her time, her son Mark grieved as much as anyone....

Andrew Sanderson, brilliant surgeon and renowned musician, is still grieving the death of his wife Mary when his younger daughter turns up on the doorstep having left her philandering husband....

The Chandlers had been making candles in Bolton for 500 years, and had given their name to the village of Chandlers Green....

In 1946, Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane, having lost her house in Bootle and three sisters to the bombs that fell over Liverpool....

In 1955 Scotland Road residents fear for their futures when government plans threaten to demolish their road....

Eve, owner and madam at Meadowbank Farm, is keen to secure a deal that keeps her in pocket. But is she a match for Babs, a 'Baby Girl' in this house of ill repute? Find out....

Now that her family is grown, content in the knowledge that she loves them, Lucy Henshaw decides she is free to leave....

In the backstreets of Liverpool, Eileen Watson lives with her mother Nellie, daughter Mel and her three tearaway sons....