In the backstreets of Liverpool, best mates Molly and Nellie are up to their usual tricks, sharing a joke with Tony and Ellen and always keeping an eye on their children and grandchildren. But they're never to busy to help out a friend, so when Claire is being pursued by a secret admirer, they put their detective skills to work.

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The innocent victims of violent crimes are often old, frail and defenceless. Indignant at their plight, Joan Jonker founded "Victims of Violence" to help them. Here she tells of how she gathered support, establishing shelters in Liverpool for those temporarily unable to face the world again.

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Joan Jonker set up the charity, Victims of Violence, and went on to raise over two million pounds and to help victims whose voices would not otherwise have been heard. This book presents the story of her fight for justice, of the heartbreak and suffering behind the crime statistics and of her courage and compassion in the face of adversity.

Evelyn married Charles just hours before he left for war, unaware that she would never see him again and that she was already carrying his child. When Amelia is born, Charles's parents won't accept that she is their grandchild, but poor as they are, Evelyn and her daughter find happiness.

Molly Bennett and Nellie McDonough's friendship has lasted over twenty years, through good times and bad. When they learn there is a wedding in the offing which will bring the Bennett, McDonough and Corkhill families even closer, it gives the pair a good reason to save up for a visit into Liverpool and to the shop selling wedding hats.