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Maria's fiancé, Eddie, is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Ada's husband, Alfie, has lost his job, and his purpose in life, Jessie is praying for the safe return of her beau, Jack, and Beatrice is hard at work as a nurse in the war hospital and is faced with a shocking revelation from her sweetheart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith many men from the Sandringham Company still missing in Gallipoli, the village is also suffering. When Kitty Willow, the wife of one of the missing men, and her six young children lose their home on the royal estate, the Saward family rally around to help. As they are forced into the workhouse and Kitty is separated from her children, life looks bleak. But when a kind benefactor takes a shine to Kitty her fortunes may have turned around. 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Once the girls step inside the elegant building - surrounded by luxurious dresses and beautiful accessories - the hardships of their own lives are temporarily forgotten. Serving a variety of curious customers, from glamorous gypsy queens to genuine royalty and stuffy academics to the city's fashionable elite, the store is a place where these young women can forge successful careers, under the ever-watchful eye of flamboyant owner Mr Heyworth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet against the backdrop of the closing years of the Second World War, and moving into the 1950s, \u003ci\u003eThe Shop Girls\u003c\/i\u003e perfectly captures the camaraderie and friendship of four ambitious young women working together in a store that offered them an escape from the drudgery of their wartime childhoods. 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It is two years since she turned up at the royal station master's house, destitute and with nowhere else to turn. Having proven herself to Harry Saward and his daughters, she is now one of the family. But when Nellie, a mysterious relative turns up looking for her, on the run from the law, Maria's new-found happiness could be under threat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, the impact of World War I is felt deeply in the community as the fate of missing men from the Sandringham Company, who fought in Gallipoli, is still unknown. As the Saward girls pull together to support each other, and the other women on the royal estate, they face their own challenges. 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