Essie

New Year's Day, 1913 and Essie sets out for Walsall and a job as akitchen maid. Thirteen years old, she leaves her impoverished family and the Midlands mining village that has been her home without a backward glance. For Essie is escaping from her drunkenand perverted father. But her traumatic childhood has left deep scars and it will be many years before she can finally come to terms with her own past and accept with open arms the love she is offered...