It's 1935 and Maggie Ross loves her life amongst the stallholders in Rotherhithe's Kelvin Market where her husband Tony has a second-hand furniture stall and where she and her two young children live over a tailor's shop. But when one day her husband seemingly disappears into thin air, her world collapses. The only trace that can be found of him is his bag, containing stolen silver. Has Tony fallen foul of villains with whom, without Maggie's knowledge, he has become involved? She has no way of telling - but, as she struggles to bring up her children alone, she soon can tell who her friends really are. And among them is the kind-hearted policeman sent to investigate her husband's shady disappearance - a man whom Tony's fellow stallholders view as being on the wrong side of the law, a man to whom Maggie is increasingly drawn... As war draws ever nearer, Maggie's predicament draws to a climax...

'Flowers with the atmosphere of old Docklands London'
Manchester Evening News

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