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

Verity Templeton 18 and fiercely independent travels to London with her aunt for the season. During ..

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

Surrey 1940. Overhead the Battle of Britain rages. Below at the Poppy Factory disabled WWI veterans ..

Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..