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

1912. Fifteen-year-old Kate Truscott leaves her small Hampshire village to become a nursemaid to fiv..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts s..

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

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

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

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

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult but she is struggling more than ever to find t..

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

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

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

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

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

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