1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

August 1940. On the streets of London locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes pla..

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

October 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a l..

November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

Thea Osborne agrees to do a second spell of house-sitting for Lucy Sinclair in her new home in North..

Thea's loathsome stepbrother is trying to trick her out of her inheritance of her parents' beautiful..

London 1910. Lily is ten years old when she realises her grandmother a washerwoman is seriously ill...

Spring 1934. Elena Standish a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence is visit..

Eddie and Eva meet on the eve of the Second World War. Eddie only wants to be a flyer to find escape..

When Robert Pomeroy a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College finds a letter slipped under his..

Spring has brought many new beginnings into the world of Persimmon ‘Simmy’ Brown. Not only has h..

London 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague no..

1969. A job in the Prison Service is not for everyone. But for Nell Lewis helping prisoners is somet..