But she can’t quite forget Harry â€" the one that got away â€" and when a snowstorm drives her into his arms, she cannot deny her feelings. Her mam died giving birth to her, her drunken father George Kenney ignored her unless he was cursing her, and only beloved Auntie Biddy provided an anchor for the little girl.

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And when Cathy’s father Frank Blackthorn brings home a London street urchin and announces this will be the son he and Rita have never had, Cathy despairs of ever winning her parents’ love. But Beth’s mother, Esther, is jealous of the girl and seizes an opportunity to be rid of her daughter. Rejected by her father, the little girl begins her new life with only a valuable brooch pinned to her shawl as a clue to her true origins.

After Auntie Biddy’s death, there was only Queenie to care for the home and to earn money, and no one to protect her from the father, who blamed his daughter for her mother’s death.

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