Dr Natalie Kenny came to Liverpool in 2015 with no belongings, car, documentation or job.
The 40-year-old scientist, from Southport, arrived in the city with her 16-month-old son, Oscar, after a “traumatic experience in her personal life”. The single mum-of-one left the South of England to move up North - having previously worked predominately between Cambridge, Oxford and London - after leaving her marriage.
The story so far might depict Natalie, who now lives in Birkdale, as the stereotypical damsel in distress, she is anything but.