Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..

As the Japanese begin their assault on Singapore Sarah Fuller and her sister Jane are forced to leav..

When Carrie Chapman signs up to be an ambulance attendant at the outbreak of World War Two she has l..

Imogen Rita and Debby all missed the original evacuation and now the authorities are finding it diff..

Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora..

Annie Swinburn had killed a man - the killing was well-deserved for Francis Morton had been evil in ..

Orphaned Eliza Dunlop has been working as a companion to a rich but cantankerous old lady Miss Grego..

When Polly Anna’s mother died when she was just three years old it seemed the workhouse was the on..

Sixteen-year-old Jeannie spends most of her time at Scarborough Harbour - she is a net mender and he..

In 1930s Scotland families are starving and thousands of farms lie derelict. But Fairlyden has survi..

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

1935: As the Depression bites beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in ..

It is March 1950 and Honey Brown marries the farmer she adores - August Blake Esq. With her mother-i..

After the death of her mother during childbirth Beth is left to care for her father and two older br..