Amy Carter is just 14 when she leaves school to look after her sick mother. But she is left all alon..

In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

May 1945. In post-war Leith the Anderson family must come to terms with the reality of peacetime Bri..

1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death. Determined to make her own way in the worl..

Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in th..

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

It is 1938 and the threat of war looms on the streets of London. But when the lights go down in the ..

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

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

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

On duty during London's Blitz.....

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

Brussels 1915. A beautiful young Belgian woman Louise is being pursued by the Germans when she meets..

Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..

The Crying Game opens in 1944 and tells the story of Trixie - a girl who has only ever known turmoil..