Alan Stoker Esq

Josie has survived poverty and disgrace - but how will she cope when she returns home to a new job and some old secrets?

When Lucy's mother Amy is flung out of the house by her seafaring husband in a drunk rage, she is rescued by a gentleman naval…

Set in the bustling shipbuilding community of Sunderland at a time of turmoil abroad and grinding poverty at home, this is the unforgettable story of…

Alison Grant is just five when her father is sent to prison for murder. Her mother blackens his character and when she's taunted at school…

Orphaned at a young age, Rachel is left penniless and alone in the streets of turn-of-the-century Newcastle. In the depths of despair she is delighted…

The harsh urban life of 1900s Sunderland is no place for beautiful, innocent Laura whose determined spirit brings nothing but trouble. In love with wealthy…

Found abandoned on the quayside, the young waif is taken in by the Jacksons whose own daughter was lost in a tragic accident. They never…

Sunderland-born Chrissie has worked her way up from the back streets with unstinting determination to give her children the opportunities her never had. But in…