The Woolworths Girl's Promise

After losing her beloved fiancé at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington faces a lonely future, estranged from her upper-class parents due to her association with Charlie Sayers and his working-class family. No longer able to live under her parents' roof, she is taken in by Charlies father, escaping their suffocating demands.

Betty soon learns all too well about the realities of life after an accident at the Woolwich Arsenal munitions works. Spotting an advertisement for a job at nearby Woolworths, Betty starts on a new and thrilling journey, starting at the bottom of the employment ladder in the well-known store.

Her work journey leads her to Ramsgate in Kent to work in a newly built store, and with it the chance of marriage - but can she ever forget Charlie and the promise she made to him...?