When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

England 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys ..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

Clydebank 1911. Ellen works at the Sewing Machine factory. So does her sister Bridget Bridget's fian..

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

1916. East London. When 16-year-old Clover Cooper's mother Iris calls her home from work one day the..

'See that patch of blue sky' he said. 'Whenever you see one that's where I'll be - thinking of you.'..

July 1941 As the war grinds on Lady Joanna Harcourt knows that her time at Goodwill House is drawing..

Blackpool 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty but their fortunes have yet to turn. Blis..