Maureen Lee

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

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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

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....

It is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters - Mollie and Annemarie - escape from their home in a tiny Irish village...

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....