Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow?s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep h..

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

Cornwall 1960 and a whole new world for young Connie Vickers as she holidays with her brand-new fian..

There were four of the Thorpe family in the Anderson shelter the night of the raid on Coventry. Mum ..

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

Hull 1874. The beautiful Jewel Newmarch adopted as a baby turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic..

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

Thirteen-year-old Bella lives at the Woodman Inn - an ancient hostelry run by her family in the York..

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

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

1860. Harriet is trying to care for her ill mother and has just lost her job. The last thing she exp..

Ruby and Grace have grown up in the poorest slums of Hull. Friends since early childhood they have s..

Sarah Foster?s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is in..