Cat Cleary is a 16-year-old Irish 'slummy' arriving in Liverpool to seek her fortune. Joe Calligan t..

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

Banished from her father's home wheelchair-bound Esther Kerral is horrified when he forces her into ..

Working at the Foyles bookshop was Molly Cooper's dream job. But with the country at war she's deter..

London 1917. After the death of their parents Victoria did everything she could to keep her siblings..

Christmas should be the happiest time but at Pennington’s dramas are seething beneath the surface...

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

Devon 1918. When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the..

The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..

Thrown together by tragic circumstances some years previously Meg and Clarrie's hard-won friendship ..

Since the death of her parents orphan Ann Felton has had to struggle to survive. The grimy and gruel..

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is hap..

Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever..

Charlotte knew nothing of her parents except that they'd died when she was a child. And when her aun..

Shaftesbury 1936. Mansfield House Hotel has been a refuge for Emily ever since she was orphaned at t..