Rosie Harris

Fern Jenkins' life is changed for ever when her brother is killed in action and her father dies in a mining explosion. Turned out of their home, Fern and her mother Wynne are forced to seek a new life in Cardiff.

Megan’s world is torn apart when her sister dies in an accident. Then she finds the man she loves is not who she thought he was. Megan starts her own business in an effort to get on with her life, but will she ever love again?

Life in Cardiff's slums is hard for Katie and her mother, especially after her father is imprisoned and they are homeless and penniless. When her father is released they hope that things will improve, but they get worse! Can Katie ever escape and make a new life for herself? X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Patsy dreams of having a proper family again when her seafaring father returns to set up as a carrier at the Liverpool docks. But her happiness is short lived when her father is killed in an accident and her mother seduces her boyfriend Bruno.

Twins Tanwen and Donna are as different as can be; Tanwen is pretty and lively while Donna is plain but warm hearted. The girls are apprenticed to The Cardiff Drapers in 1924. When Donna meets handsome Dylan Wallis Tanwen also falls for him, with disastrous consequences for them all.

Sheryl’s marriage to Alun is especially difficult when they are reduced to living in poverty in the slums of Cardiff. When Alun is imprisoned, Sheryl has to leave her daughter Caitlin with her in-laws. Then Caitlin disappears after taking off to Cardiff in search of her mother.

When 14-year-old Sara Jenkins rescues her baby sister, Myfanwy, from the fire which kills their mother, little does she realise the burden of responsibility she is taking on. She faces the hardest times of her life before happiness is finally within her reach...

Crippled by polio, Winnie Molloy has little to look forward to. At the start of the war her adored father is called up and she is left with her feckless mother. When Tommy is declared missing, her mother goes on a drinking spree and dies. Winnie, alone and loveless, is sent to an orphanage, will her life ever improve?

Kept a virtual stranger by her bullying father, fourteen-year-old Vera Quinn longs for a life of her own. After her mother's untimely death, Vera is expected to keep house for both Michael and her brothers Eddy and young Benny. Will she ever be saved from a life of drudgery?

When Molly's father returns from the war, the family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. Molly is determined to make a better life for herself, but when her father is killed in a fight and her mother turns to drink in her sorrow, she wonders if this dream will ever come true...