Mary Hooper

It is Jack’s , Megan’s son, first birthday party and the atmosphere is very tense. But Megan is being distracted by the unusual amount of telephone calls that her mother is getting. Surely Mum hasn’t got a boyfriend has she? But it turns out that she has - and what is more, he is moving in. This really shakes up the dynamics of the...

Jest rok 1861. Pozbawiona skrupułów, bezwzględna rodzina Unwinów, która zbudowała imperium na śmierci i żałobie, nie cofnie się przed niczym, aby pozbawić spadku dwie sieroty – Grace oraz bezbronną Lily, dziewczynę o umyśle dziecka. Po utracie najbliższych siostry desperacko walczą o przetrwanie, a kiedy Grace zmuszona jest zatrudnić się u Unwinów...

Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself.  Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed medium, who asks Velvet to come to...

Eliza is ousted by her new stepmother from her family and finally makes her way to London - only to be thrown straight into prison for stealing a mouthful of bread. At this point Eliza's life takes some remarkable twists as she learns to survive the sordid prison life, is rescued by a woman she has never met before pretending to be her aunt -...

Grace Parkes has just had to do a terrible thing. Having given birth to an illegitimate child, she has travelled to the famed Brookwood Cemetery to place her small infant's body in a rich lady's coffin. Following the advice of a kindly midwife, this is the only way that Grace can think of to give something at least to the little baby who...

I could barely explain how much I wanted to go back to London, for I hardly understood myself. I'd hated the stinking city when we'd left, could hardly bear to think on its name, but now the plague had disappeared from the streets the people would be back, the theatres and shops would be open and we would find everything as cheery as it...