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'One last word of warning, my girl. Keep well away from that Hadyn Jenkins.'

In spite of her father's words of warning, Sharon Pritchard decides to give up everything to follow her heart. And when Hadyn's errant ways catch up with him, Sharon is faced with a devastating truth.

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Her life was full of hardship and despair...

When Molly's father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. But when a fire destroys their home, not only do Molly and Jodie lose their mother, but they find themselves homeless and with a very bleak future ahead of them...

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They shared a secret no one must ever know...

When seventeen-year-old Ruth Davies' father is invalided out of the Great War, the whole family has little choice but to move to the infamous Tiger Bay area of Cardiff.

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But soon tragedy strikes - Julia's baby is stillborn at the same time as Eunice gives birth to a healthy baby girl, Amanda. However, Paul and Eunice Hawkins hide a secret too terrible to reveal and it is only after their untimely deaths and teenage Amanda's sudden disappearance that Julia finds out the truth.

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Fern Jenkins' life is changed for ever when her brother is killed in action and her father dies in a mining explosion. Turned out of their home by the ruthless pit owner, Fern and her mother Wynne are forced to seek a new life in Cardiff.

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Pryce is arrested - and Sabrina disappears...

Months later Rhianon chances upon her sister and is shocked to find her pregnant, living in squalid lodgings in the poorest part of Cardiff. When Davyn is born Sabrina will have nothing to do with him, and kind-hearted Rhianon looks after the little boy, patiently awaiting Pryce's release.

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The youngest of three, she longs to be loved by her mother, but Ellen spends all her time with her eldest son, while Abbie and her brother, Sam, take refuge with their neighbours, Sandra Lewis and Peter Ryan. But Peter and Sandra have a secret - one that could destroy the friends' relationship should it become known.

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Was she always to be fated in love...

When Gaynor's God-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. And when her parents discover she's pregnant and insist she cannot keep the child, Gaynor runs away to Cardiff.

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Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father's friends - a man she instinctively dislikes.

Kept under lock and key, her life soon becomes a living hell.

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A POWERFUL SAGA SET IN LIVERPOOL.

She fell in love - he broke her heart

Young Megan Williams has come to Liverpool in search of work and a fresh start.

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A mother will do anything to protect her child...

Karen and Tudor Morgan have moved from a small mining community to the bustle and noise of Cardiff in search of a new life.

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Life seems to alternate between periods of happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old Sheryl Williams after she marries dashing soldier Alun Powell, and times when bad luck and despair almost drown her happiness forever. Their life together is full of recriminations and when Alan is imprisoned, desperate Sheryl is forced to turn to the Powells.

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Lucy Collins and her brother Sam have lived side by side with the Tanner family all their lives.

Until tragedy strikes when Lucy's parents are killed in a car crash, and Sam is left gravely injured and in need of careful nursing.

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Here she is swept off her feet by handsome Gwyn Roberts, but when she becomes pregnant her parents are devastated and turn her from their door.

All Gwyn and Sarah can afford are two squalid rooms in the infamous slums of Cardiff and Sarah soon realises she's made a terrible mistake.

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A life full of shattered hopes...

Brenda O'Donnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. And when Sid dies and leaves the business to his cousin, Charlie, life becomes even harder for Brenda as she faces the threat of losing everything she holds dear...

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It is 1914, and Christabel Montgomery is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her fianc has been drowned at sea. But she soon discovers she is pregnant, and fearing her parents would throw her out if they knew, she decides to help the war effort by leaving home to become a nurse.

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Crippled by polio, young Winnie Molloy has little to look forward to in life. He fears for Winnie and persuades Sandy Coulson to wheel her to school each day in a converted pram. To pay the rent on the one squalid room they are now living in she takes Winnie in the pram out begging until she is given a warning by the police.

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In time, though, they are able to open up a little shop and it seems as if life is looking up for both young women.

But fate soon intervenes and they are reduced to living in even greater squalor, barely able to eke out enough money to support themselves let alone their two children.