A Woman's Ruin

One mistake will cost her everything...

In the poverty-stricken Tyneside of the 1930s, Mary Walton is the light of her father Alec’s life. Ground down by years of unemployment and an unhappy marriage, he is determined that his daughter will escape the hardship that has trapped their family for so long.

When Mary begins working for local shopkeeper Ben Tollett, she catches her first glimpse of a different future. But as the two grow closer, a secret threatens everything Alec has hoped for his daughter.

As the years bring war, love and loss, Mary must find the strength to build a life from the wreckage of those early dreams. But the choices made in one generation will reach far beyond her own, shaping the family for decades to come...