Wheeling and Dealing: Ella Dryden has always lived in the East End ? it's where she belongs. So when her husband Dennis announces he wants to move away, Ella just can't bring herself to go with him. Especially when she learns of his betrayal. But staying in the East End is going to force Ella into making some changes. Soon, with a bar job, a slimmer figure and a new sense of independence, Ella proves that she can be happy ? by herself. Not to mention attractive to the opposite sex ...Life's for Living: Like most people in the impoverished East End of the 1920s, Joan has her crosses to bear ? and her biggest one by far is her husband. A good for nothing drinker and gambler, he perishes one day in a fire of his own drunken making. Joan's new-found freedom leads her to Eric Roussel, a successful, charismatic businessman. It looks like she's found the happy ending she deserves ? until she learns that Eric is hiding his own secrets ...