The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..

Eighteen-year-old Evie arrives at Post Stone Farm in December 1944 and choosing to join the Land Arm..

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

1940 London. Sheila Phipps is orphaned after a devastating air raid claims her family and her home. ..

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

Poplar London 1920. Fourteen-year-old Victoria Keats is horrified when her father demands that she g..

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

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

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

Liz MacMillan has wanted to be a nurse ever since her baby brother died of scarlet fever but her dom..

Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in th..

Susan Cahill enjoys her job at the BBC until a bomb destroys the building and brings a new boss Walt..

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

Lily and Ceily Carney are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them leaving..

What possible connections might exist between an aged man who used to sell shoes some ladies of the ..