Sixteen-year-old Jeannie spends most of her time at Scarborough Harbour - she is a net mender and he..

Annie Swinburn had killed a man - the killing was well-deserved for Francis Morton had been evil in ..

When Polly Anna’s mother died when she was just three years old it seemed the workhouse was the on..

When 16-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead o..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London’s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destr..

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

As the Japanese begin their assault on Singapore Sarah Fuller and her sister Jane are forced to leav..

Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora..

Edinburgh 1923. After four years spent in an orphanage bright spirited 15-year-old Shona Murray find..

Although she believes nothing can come of it ladies' maid Daisy March is eagerly awaiting the return..

In 1906 Beth Jamieson is a little girl of eight with honey gold curls and the sweetest nature. Her f..

In the chaos aboard the sinking Titanic Mair Parsons is separated from her infant daughter Catherine..

France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the t..