Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

Young Jeanette Walker often wonders what became of her mother who disappeared without trace during a..

1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..

Despite her privileged upbringing Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She ..

Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter the notorious ..

1939. When the man Georgie has always loved is sent to France on a secret mission every knock of the..

Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. T..

As a small child Nellie Peace was always dreaming but sensed her mother’s rejection. Abandoned and..

Tasmania 1929: Ten-year-old-twins Tom and Harry Abbott are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart ..

Rationing bombing disease and pit disasters are part of Rose Kelly's World War 2 childhood. When the..