Maureen Lee

Pearl Street, Liverpool, Christmas 1942. Despite the drama and tragedy of the War, the street’s spirit and friendship in adversity binds them together....

Millie Cameron is furious when she finds herself obliged to sort through the belongings of her aunt Flo who has died recently....

Beginning in 1950s Liverpool, Violet's Children is a warm and nostalgic story of a young woman who must adopt her sister's children after tragedy strikes....

It's 1925, and Patricia, Tara and Aideen couldn't be more excited to be starting a new life in Liverpool....

As the summer break begins, lifelong friends Norah and Daisy are looking forward to one last summer together. That is until they fall under the spell of charismatic newcomer Jack Hannay....

It's 1944 and Flora Knox is enjoying a beautiful spring morning in the Swiss mountains....

Pretty Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law; bitter, ambitious Cora. Alice is happily married to John Lacey, Cora to his hapless younger brother, Billy....

At 14, Ruby is beautiful, intelligent and wilful - and delighted to be chosen by the wealthy Emily Dangerfield, who lives in a grand house near Liverpool, as a companion....

As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour.

Pretty Amy Curran was just 18 years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven, or so they both believed....

The newcomers who move in around her bring with them their own dramas....

Queenie is only 14 and has been deserted by her mother....

Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with purely for the sake of her two young children....

Her once-loving husband is distant and unfriendly so Brodie Logan makes the life-changing decision to leave him. She moves into Chestnuts, a ramshackle old house in Liverpool....

At the age of 19, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary....

Liverpool, 1915. Martha Rossi lives in a tenement with her husband and their five children....

For Josie Flynn, the war was just the start of a journey that began in heartbreak when she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle....

It is the heady 60s in Liverpool, and the Flowers, the Baileys, and the McDowds are three very different families bound together by music....

After the death of their mother, Mollie and Annemarie decide to escape from their tiny Irish village and head to Liverpool to board a ship to New York....

Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed....