At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

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

Maria is a girl with a great talent for fabric design and while the world becomes embroiled in war a..

In 1875 railwayman Tom Swales with his wife and five daughters takes the tiny end cottage in a terra..

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

Mariah Bowes thinks that being alone and penniless is the worst thing that can happen to a woman unt..

It's 1944 and three very different women join a touring variety group and travel through Europe perf..

Moments after she is born Tessa Barcussy is branded as 'trouble'. The day she is born her father Fre..

Seventeen-year-old Merryn Dyer has been helping her mother knit fishermen's jumpers in their little ..

Orphaned young Violet Wheeler has been brought up by her aunt - but when Winnie dies she feels she's..

A body neatly wrapped in brown paper is found by the gardener Mr Turtle on his garden rubbish heap. ..

When her husband a known Nazi supporter is released from prison Celia refuses to return to her unhap..

And head welder Rosie's little sister Charlotte has turned up unannounced. Why is she back and so se..

London 1942: Flo Canning's heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading sinc..

Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..