Love this author's books. Great sagas - to quote ' the Catherine Cookson of Liverpool'.

Back Cover Blurb:
Since they were kids fighting in the backstreets, brother and sister Katie and George Deegan have battled like cat and dog. Now Katie is in her twenties, and like her brother, has a full-time factory job. But unlike Georgie, who puts his feet up when he comes home, she does her turn behind the counter in their mother Molly's fish and game shop after a day on the factory floor. Yet when their father dies suddenly Georgie assumes the shop is his - and that his chance has come to rule the Deegan roost at last.
Katie has other ideas, as does her strong-minded mother who is all too aware of her son's devious ways. But, as the shadow of World War ll creeps closer and Georgie's illegal money-making schemes gain momentum, neither Katie nor her mother has any idea what troubles lie in store for the women whose lives the ruthless Georgie Deegan is determined to control - at any cost.... ( )