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When her parents die, in 1897, Molly must take responsibility for her siblings. This means foresaking her dreams of a better life, outside the poverty she was born into. Searching for love and security, Molly marries Hector Stubbins from the local church, but he is not the man he appears to be.

Although World War II means uncertainty and anxiety for some, Eunice is grateful for the opportunities it gives her to escape her overbearing mother and the family's Blackpool boarding house. She volunteers for the Women's Land Army and finds new independence as well as new challenges.

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Rosie and Patsy were adopted sisters and best of friends. As they reach adulthood, the two go their separate ways, yet both sisters fail to succeed in their search for love. Reunited in Blackpool, they decide to make a new start and recapture the happiness shared in their youth.

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It is with mixed feelings that Frances Goodwin leaves Yorkshire to return home to Blackpool to look after her ailing mother. However, some drama enters her life in the form of Adrian Glover, the new local Methodist minister, and then there's her new colleague, Marcus Avery.

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There's a silver lining is an evocative saga, steeped in warmth and nostalgia, in which heartache, happiness, tragedy and triumph lie in store for a close-knit Blackpool community.

Yorkshire 1953. From the moment she hears her baby cry, Rachel Watkins knows this little girl won't be easy. As the 1960s draw to a close, Rachel is at her wits' end with the rebellious teenager. Partying till the early hours, Lorna attracts all manner of attention with her pretty face, vivacious p

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Wednesday's child is full of woe...When Rachel Watkins gives birth to her daughter on Ash Wednesday in 1953, she prays the old saying won't be proved true. She's shed enough tears over her troubled marriage to Derek, and she hopes that Lorna will be the sunshine to light up their unhappy home.