Lizzie of Langley Street - Carol Rivers

With her mother dead, her crippled father a broken and bitter man and her elder brother deeply in debt to the local hard man, Lizzie Allen faces desperate times.
When her sweetheart Danny heads for Australia, Lizzie is torn between her heart and loyalty to her family.
Determined to survive despite the lure of criminal gangs and her suspicions about her husband Frank, the man she settles for as second best, will Lizzie find the strength to protect and keep her family together - and will she ever be reunited with her one true love, costermonger Danny Flowers?