The Crowded Street

This is the story of Muriel Hammond at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian middle-class society in Marshington a Yorkshire village. A career is forbidden to her. Pretty but not pretty enough she fails to achieve the one thing required of her – to find a suitable husband. Then comes the First World War a watershed which tragically revolutionises the lives of her generation. But for Muriel it offers work friendship freedom and one last chance to find a special kind of happiness…