Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of hull. Her adored father travelled often to the..

It’s 1925 and Kate Cameron is just sixteen when she’s taken on at a shipyard on the Clyde. Kate�..

Christmas 1917 and as the Lilley family gathers at the Rectory in the Sussex village of Ashden the m..

As the Houses of York and Lancaster clash young Elizabeth Sheldyke is married off to the ageing mast..

Hugo Kendal and his wife Margaret finally receive a royal pardon and are permitted at last to return..

It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in An..

1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..

For Amelia and her siblings the grim past which their mother Emily had endured seemed very far away...

March 1915. Caroline Lilley's fiancé Reggie is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and ..

“The end of the old world” people said about the long hot summer of 1914. That summer Aunt Tilly..

Fearless Felicity Penrose thrives on adventure: she's one of the most experienced female sailors in ..

A loving and hard-working child Emily goes into service when she is twelve at the house of Roger Fra..

The Second World War has finally come to a close. Rachel Booker's husband has returned and the famil..

By the summer of 1916 there is still no end to the war in sight and in the Sussex village of Ashden ..

Anna Grayson has been a dutiful daughter her whole life but her world is transformed when she meets ..