A warm and heartwarming saga set in World War One, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.
Letty Bancroft is convinced that she has found the right man and is longing for the day when she and David Baron walk down the aisle.
But Letty's father has other ideas. Arthur Bancroft has decided that he cannot manage his East End shop alone now that Letty's mother has died, and turns his youngest daughter into a domestic drudge. Letty is to be tied to house and shop while her sisters find joy in their husbands and children.
So Lett, heartbroken, sees her love go off to fight in France, believing...

From rags to riches. . . With the Armistice only a few months past, times are hard for 18-year-old Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a more glamorous life. When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor of a small jewelers' shop in Bond Street, Geraldine is propelled into a new world--but it comes at a heavy price.

She has the chance for a new life, but will she take it? When their mother dies of pneumonia, Ellie and her younger sister Dora are left alone in the world. Their hard-drinking, womanising father has abandoned them, and they cannot afford the rent on their East End tenement alone. Ellie is proud but she cannot turn down an offer of help from Doctor Lowe, a kindly man who sees Ellie as the replacement for his own recently deceased daughter. Though Doctor Lowe's motives are misguided, his kindness offers Ellie and Dora an opportunity to escape the poverty of their background and make...