Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

Edith and Ada run a home for unmarried mothers in London's East End. Edith a doctor offers free med..

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

At sixteen Sarah has her whole life ahead of her. She is busy planning her wedding and will soon be ..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

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

Since being widowed Caroline Dering has been content to live her life solely for her children. Then ..

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..