On her deathbed Lucy Fallow’s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep..

Edinburgh Yuletide 1743. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard Ro..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

1925 a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson in Germany to seek the answers to a tan..

In a small seaside town popular with summer visitors Cecily and Ada run their father's grocery shop...

1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..

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Ever since the death of her beloved husband Peter Caroline's life in Bath has not been the same. Fri..