Freddie Barcussy knows hardship and pain. His parents Annie and Levi are struggling to make ends mee..

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..

Moments after she is born Tessa Barcussy is branded as 'trouble'. The day she is born her father Fre..

It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..

Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lott..

Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

London has been ravaged by war for three years now and life couldn't be tougher for those living on ..

London 1910. Lily is ten years old when she realises her grandmother a washerwoman is seriously ill...

Cornwall 1798. Eighteen months have passed since Midshipman Edmund Melville was declared missing pr..

For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..

Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies - she makes a living by taking in unwanted c..

Lancashire 1940. Janie and her husband James have a strong loving marriage. A move from an inner-cit..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..