Shopkeepers

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For the local merchants and tradespeople, summer in the Edwardian seaside town of Culvergate is a time for business. A time for making the most of the tourist crowds who flock there from the grey terraces of London; a time for ringing up the profits that would see them through another bleak and wind-swept winter.But from September to May the townsfolk were able to reclaim their lives. As the summer months demanded their professional attention, so the winter made them dwell on the private intrigues of family and friends. For draper, milliner, grocer and picture-framer, winter is a time for delving behind the facade of shop-front finery, where High Street respectability hides darker truths: ambition, rebellion, tyranny and despair.With a ghostly town and empty shops, scandal and gossip are the new currency for the shopkeepers, as secrets are revealed, hopes are realised and lives are changed...