One step forward

the long version

Ever since she was eight years old, Katie Roberts has dreamed of getting away from the Cardiff slums where she lives. Her handsome but wicked father, Lewis, is imprisoned for theft, leaving Katie and her mother to face poverty and the stigma of her father's shame. When Lewis is released years later, it seems that life must improve, but to Katie's horror, it becomes worse than she has ever known it. When she and her father are left alone together, Katie seeks happiness and love elsewhere, but there is difficulty and danger at every turn ...