After a family tragedy Janey Carhart was forced from her comfortable life as a captain’s daughter ..
From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..
Christmas Eve 1909. When eleven-year-old Lily Larkin is left to fend for herself in an East London w..
Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..
Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..
1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..
Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear ..
Lou Channer wants a life outside of North Devon somewhere she's never left. She yearns to contribute..
After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..
Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father a small-time crook has an ulterior moti..
Nell Flynn is training to be a nurse and planning to marry her boyfriend when her mother dies leavin..
Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..
When little Ella's grandmother dies she is turned out of her home and forced into a life of cruel la..
Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..