When the Shelby brothers return from the Great War in 1919, they expect Birmingham to look the same as when they left. Smoke still hangs over the factories, the Garrison still smells of whiskey and coal, and Small Heath still belongs to the Peaky Blinders. But one thing has changed—while the men fought in France, the Shelby empire never fell apart. It survived because Tommy Shelby’s wife refused to let it collapse.