Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

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

It is 1931 and once again Europe is heading towards disaster. Life must go on however and a new gene..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share which is set high up in the limestone escar..

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

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

1901. Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family while Edward grew up with an abus..

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

Liverpool 1940. When war comes to Britain Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity t..

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

1916 Mesopotamia. The Turks order prisoners from the siege of Kut to march the hundreds of miles to ..

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..