Edwardian Portsea slumps against the dockyard walls. It’s isolated from the mainland by a strip of sea to the north, and the hot walls to the south. The Pompey accent isn’t the soft Hampshire burr, but a harsh peculiar hybrid dialect. The hardness of the dialect reflects the toughness of its people.
Charlie price is a criminal. His daughter, Fanny Price, is pregnant after a one-night stand with Walter Rackett. She tells Walter he has to marry her. Walter didn’t ask Charlie for his daughter’s hand in marriage. Taking, without asking is theft—in anyone’s book.
Emily doesn’t know who the father of the child she carries is; she knows it isn’t her husband’s… Charlie gives Emily the benefit of his doubt—for now. Walter could be the father of Emily’s child…
