title: Ambitions
author: Howard, Audrey
description: An English beauty, Lacy Hemingway, the daughter of Liverpool's wealthiest shipping magnate, disavowed for her rebelliousness, and Rose O'Malley, a poor Irish servant girl, forge an unlikely friendship which bonds them for ever when they find themselves on the streets of the Merseyside slums without a penny to their names. The two young girls defy the rigid conventions of Victorian society and build a vast shipping empire in a world dominated by men.