Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

The eldest of three children Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the mate..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..