Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..
Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy Henshaw decides she i..
Kent 1822. Fearing for his life Thomas Marsh has fled Castle Bay and found work as a mill hand deep ..
Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..
In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..
When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..
Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..
There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..
At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..
Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..
It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..
Young Jeanette Walker often wonders what became of her mother who disappeared without trace during a..
The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..
Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..
In a small seaside town popular with summer visitors Cecily and Ada run their father's grocery shop...
Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..
From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..
Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..
Bolton Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her pa..
In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..
When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..
As Europe edges closer to war Bella's world is focused on avoiding a future like her mother's. She d..
17-year-old Alice Tozer comes as a maid to the Tozers' farm in Burracombe in the spring of 1918. She..
Kent 1828. Lizzie Carey of Castle Bay is trapped in a life she never chose - endless days of cooking..
Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..
Living in the Stationmaster's cottage at Partick Carrie Burgess leads a charmed life cushioned from ..
Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..
Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..
1925 a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson in Germany to seek the answers to a tan..
Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..
Ever since the death of her beloved husband Peter Caroline's life in Bath has not been the same. Fri..
Dora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final three months of their..
Despite her privileged upbringing Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She ..
Naomi is upset to find a nasty anonymous letter land on her doorstep. Who could've sent something li..
It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..
As the Great War rages Jack's toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham is threa..
1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..
1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..
When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..
Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..
1939. When war sends five displaced children to her door Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be t..
Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..
Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter the notorious ..
1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..
Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..
As the war continues to keep her family far away Peggy Reilly must continue to look after her girls ..
September 1940. As Luftwaffe bombs rain from the skies over London the women of Lavender Road are fi..