Anne Baker 
Mersey Maids 
A moving family saga of romance, poverty and hope

When widower Henry Knell loses his glove-making business to the Dransfields his life is well and truly ruined. With his six young daughters, he moves into rented rooms in a Merseyside back street. Meanwhile, Hattie and Maggie, the eldest girls, are trying to hold the family together. Sophie Dransfield »s husband, Daniel, takes pity on the poverty-stricken Knells and offers Maggie a job as a maid in the Dransfields » nursery. Maggie »s beautiful blonde hair soon catches the eye of Sophie »s brother Tom, whose dashing brother, Luke, is equally enchanted by Hattie when she joins the household as a lady »s maid. But the fortunes of the two sisters do not run according to plan…