Helen Shingler

Set on the north-east coast of Scotland when farmers were dispossessed of their land and had to take to the seas as fishermen, Catrine is the wife of a fisherman, who is press-ganged to join the Royal Navy. Struggling with her sudden loss, she meets the charming Roddie.

When a Parisian club singer finds herself torn between two sailors on the tumultuous South Seas, she finds herself falling deeply in love with a crippled ex-boxer.