1915. Beth Healey hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate her 18th birth..

Liverpool 1940. When war comes to Britain Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity t..

Yorkshire 1944. The end of the war feels close but Air Transport Auxiliary girls Bobbie Viv and Mary..

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

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

Born into poverty and hardship Ruby Skinner's decision to approach the unscrupulous East End villain..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Victoria Wild is only four years old but already knows about heartbreak having been abandoned by her..

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

Southampton 1905. Ellie-May and Jack have been inseparable since birth. But when Jack and his mother..

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

Spring 1919. WW1 might be over but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the p..

September 1942. Mary arrives in London to take up a new post as a fabric-cutter at Liberty's Carnaby..

Christmas 1945. The war is over but the Nightingale Hospital still bears the scars. Matron Kathleen ..