Norfolk 1939. The residents of Great Plumstead agree to open up their homes to evacuees from London...
London 1910. Lily is ten years old when she realises her grandmother a washerwoman is seriously ill...
1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..
Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..
Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..
Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..
1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..
Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..
With the approach of war about to bring heartache to families all over England Elsie Mead longs to d..
1939. When the man Georgie has always loved is sent to France on a secret mission every knock of the..
After being orphaned as a child Mary is taken in by her mother?s friend - and ex-prostitute - Nell. ..
Kent 1814. Molly Dawson now a respectable married woman lives with her husband and three daughters o..
May 1941. Three young women join the war effort during the Yorkshire Blitz. Connie an ARP warden per..
1937. Alice Edith and Marg face hardships every day growing up on one of the poorest streets in Blac..
When her beloved mistress dies lady's maid Phoebe Parsons is forced onto the poverty-ridden streets ..