Italy 1921. Yacobo Levi an intellectual dreamer works in the family bookshop. Angelo Ghione a contad..

Cornwall 1914. Edith Fairchild's good-for-nothing husband Benedict deserted her when their children ..

Bel Lamington finds London a very lonely place - until a young artist literally drops in on her roof..

Feisty journalist Isabella has never known the truth about her family. Escaping from a dangerous ass..

London 1849. As a cholera epidemic draws nearer Joshua Jeavons engineer is working on his great drai..

It's 1940 and Britain is on the brink of invasion. Londoner George has been sent to live in the coun..

1931. Fifteen-year-old Kate witnesses her mother Millicent push a stranger from a station platform i..

When Englishwoman Frances McDonald sets up home in a remote South African hamlet she is regarded wit..

During the First World War as men were sent to fight women and girls took their place in munitions f..

Suffolk 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising musician she now h..

1939. Viola Baxter and Fred Scholtz planned to start their new lives together. But Fred is half-Germ..

France 1942. As the war in Europe rages on Adèle Ambeh dreams of a France that is free from the clu..

Florence Connelly is broken hearted. Her marriage has collapsed and her beloved grandmother has just..

The Queen’s chief spymaster Francis Walsingham and his team of agents must maintain the highest le..

In 1955 Cyprus is torn apart by EOKA and Ariadne’s family is deeply involved but her heart skips t..