A Deal With Her Father

 

​Release date: 26th March 2025

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1926: His legs badly damaged in World War One, Harry Pearson has been made to feel useless. Desperate to prove his worth, he wants to start a business, but needs a loan. William Chilvers will lend him the money when nobody else will, but only if he woos  William's  headstrong daughter, Regina and changes her mind about living independently before her 21st birthday in six weeks' time. Against his better judgement, Harry agrees.

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Reggie Chilvers knows her father believes a woman’s place is in the home, but she is determined: on her birthday, she will come into her inheritance, leave home, and gain her independence. The last thing she wants is a husband, even if Harry is charming, attentive and sympathetic to her views. 

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Will he win her heart before his deadline? And how will she feel if she learns the truth?

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​Lightning Strikes Twice

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​1926. Twelve years ago, Frank marched off to war and Daisy said she'd wait for him. She never wrote to him and when he returned home, he found her gone. Now, he works for his brother's delivery business and enjoys a shallow social life, never getting too serious about any woman.

Daisy discovered she was pregnant after Frank had gone to war. She wrote to tell him but he never wrote back. She believes he sent her letter to his father, who paid her off and sent her away. Now, she works as a clippie on the buses, and lives in poverty with her son, Bertie, and her war-disabled father.

The General Strike has begun and Frank sees Daisy on the picket line. Both are angry and mistrustful, but they soon discover their feelings for each other have not changed.

Then Frank's father calls in the fascist Division Q to force the strikers back to work, and things threaten to turn very nasty indeed...