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Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..

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When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket Ava..

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

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Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

Between work and home life there's plenty to keep Flo occupied. Not least new deputy store manager H..

But there is more tragedy still to come and Flo and her friends will need each other more than ever ..

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