Amy Pearsons family is desperately poor – even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool – but they have each other. Until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion and snobbery who wants a girl she can mould as she wishes. Clever and pretty, ten-year-old Amy is perfect […]
Vibrant and headstrong, Ally Pearce loves working on the Edith, her familys narrowboat, proving shes the equal of any man on the Leeds to Liverpool canal. Betsy, delicate, calculating and sensuously beautiful, wants only to become a lady — and will use the most unladylike means to become one. When Dr Tom Hartley enters the […]