Let me introduce you to Lucy and Elinor. They are two sisters growing up in St Helier, at the height of the Victorian age, in an unhappy home that reeked with the stench of gin.

Through fierce determination, both girls would make their mark on the twentieth century. Their paths would take them from that dreary house on Colomberie to the glittering catwalks of New York and the sun-drenched boulevards of Hollywood respectively. 

Yet their story almost ended before it had begun. Turn the clock back, and we meet two frightened little girls, on a black steamship, heading home to Jersey in the night. It has been an uneventful voyage so far, but history has other plans.

Extract from my book Jersey: Secrets of the Sea by Paul Darroch.

Music credit: Chariots by Gavin Luke Courtesy of Epidemic Sound.