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Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law, Cora. Alice is married to John, Cora to his hapless younger brother Billie. Both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in 1940. It is Cora's jealousy and resentment that prompts her to swap her puny baby for Alice's beautiful son. With Alice's marriage in tatters, she borrows money from Cora in order to purchase the lease of the tiny hairdresser where she works. Alice is talented; the business thrives and a chain of salons becomes Laceys of Liverpool. The relationships between the cousins Cormac and Maurice, their parents, Alice's three girls and their eventual husbands and children, combine to give a unique picture of Liverpool in the last 60 years of the 20th century.

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Maureen Lee is a British novelist of one hundred and fifty short-stories and dramatic historical romance novels. In 2000, her novel Dancing in the Dark won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Clare Higgins is a stage, film and television actress. She is a graduate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s Clare consolidated her reputation as a dynamic stage actress, both in London and on Broadway, winning three Olivier awards. In 2012, she appeared in Downton Abbey as Mrs Bartlett, and in 2013 she appeared in the Doctor Who mini-episode 'The Night of the Doctor'.

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