Kathleen Johnson and Arthur Shelby's rocky marriage leads her to leave for America, anticipating a new life free of heartbreak and free from the Shelby name. Kathleen and her sister Jane Johnson catch the next boat to America, leaving everything else behind them in Small Heath, finding themselves indulging in two well dressed American men. Read on as Kathleen encounters all of the ups and downs of leaving her hometown behind, and although she was so far from home, the men of Small Heath were never too far behind her.