1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

As the Houses of York and Lancaster clash young Elizabeth Sheldyke is married off to the ageing mast..

Fearless Felicity Penrose thrives on adventure: she's one of the most experienced female sailors in ..

Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

17-year-old Alice Tozer comes as a maid to the Tozers' farm in Burracombe in the spring of 1918. She..

1961. Lucia once dreamed of a man who would love her. She has lost hope because what man would when ..

1941 the Isle of Dogs. Neglected by their drunken mother young Bella Doyle and her brother Terry ar..

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

In September 1940 the Isle of Dogs suffers the first terrible night of a nine-month Blitz. Amidst th..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

The O'Neils who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over the..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

As the war takes its toll the Nightingale nurses must do their bit for king and country…Dora is th..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

Cornwall: 1793. Rose Pengelly's father has been ruined - he has lost his boat yard and his fortune p..

It’s 1925 and Kate Cameron is just sixteen when she’s taken on at a shipyard on the Clyde. Kate�..

Edith and Ada run a home for unmarried mothers in London's East End. Edith a doctor offers free med..

An impetuous decision to marry has left the young Lady Caroline widowed and with two estates in her ..

1930 the Isle of Dogs. Young Lily Bright works long hours on a market stall selling furniture and b..

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

Nell Goodman is a good daughter. Her job in the local brewery is the only thing keeping her and her ..

Christmas Eve 1909. When eleven-year-old Lily Larkin is left to fend for herself in an East London w..

Cat Cleary is a 16-year-old Irish 'slummy' arriving in Liverpool to seek her fortune. Joe Calligan t..

Hilary Napier has had enough of secrets. The engagement party at the Barton is finally a chance for ..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

On the eve of the First World War carpenter Tom Munday is content with his lot: he's been blessed wi..

Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..

Edinburgh Yuletide 1743. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard Ro..

London 1771. The unexpected friendship between Tabitha Prewett the only daughter of a respectable ta..

With her mother dead her crippled father a broken and bitter man and her elder brother deeply in deb..

When little Ella's grandmother dies she is turned out of her home and forced into a life of cruel la..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

Combining a heroine worthy of Poldark with the drama of a family saga this is a gripping story of se..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

It’s Christmas 1880 in London’s East End and a dying Irish girl leaves her baby in the care of t..

Nothing can change her love for her son Gloria and Joe were the golden couple until tragedy left..

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

Soundings and Choc Lit present the audiobook edition of A Daughter's Christmas Wish. Christmas 1919...

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

Susan Cahill enjoys her job at the BBC until a bomb destroys the building and brings a new boss Walt..

Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

1928 The Isle of Dogs. When her sailor husband goes missing presumed drowned Eve Kumar struggles to ..

On Easter day in 1918 Frances Kemp looked out at the little thatched village and promised that one d..

June 2nd 1953 and the residents of Ruby Street are celebrating the coronation. It's a new beginning ..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

In a busy maternity unit there are inevitable tensions between modern technology and the demands by ..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow’s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep..

Sally Travis appeared to have been badly let down by Rhys Martin who had gone away to college when u..

The Second World War has finally come to a close. Rachel Booker's husband has returned and the famil..

After her daughter Arabella passes away leaving a poor motherless child in her wake Nell Almond does..

At sixteen Sarah has her whole life ahead of her. She is busy planning her wedding and will soon be ..

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..

1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..

Liz MacMillan has wanted to be a nurse ever since her baby brother died of scarlet fever but her dom..

1920s. When her father dies Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position tak..

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

“The end of the old world” people said about the long hot summer of 1914. That summer Aunt Tilly..

Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfather and h..

Winter 1919 Two months after the Armistice that ended the Great War and life in London's East End is..

After the death of her parents in a bombing raid Mary Jones discovers a secret in her father’s dia..

When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action she brings up their young dau..

Britain is at war and Ruth a gifted pilot is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Over in..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

There were four of the Thorpe family in the Anderson shelter the night of the raid on Coventry. Mum ..

1890 Western Australia. 14-year-old Sarette Maitland is orphaned when her father dies of a snake bit..

Rosie's family doesn't have much money but she's rich in other ways and when Danny Walsh asks her to..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..