Adam and Polly Fitch face a bleak future after being sold for just five shillings to Miss Reed's orp..

1851. After her husband saved her from a life of prostitution Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a hou..

London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..

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

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

March 1915. Caroline Lilley's fiancé Reggie is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and ..

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is hap..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..

'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..

Sunderland 1943. Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feel..

“She's not worth more than tuppence that child!” Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe...

Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..

But there is more tragedy still to come and Flo and her friends will need each other more than ever ..