Mr Selfridge is a British-American period television drama series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store in London, set in the 1910s. the second season opens with Harry and his wife, Rose, having become increasingly estranged. He’s thrilled when she returns to celebrate the fifth anniversary. There’s still a rift between them exacerbated by the influence of novelist Delphine Day and their 15-year-old son who wants to leave school and work in the store.