Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Christmas 1945. The war is over but the Nightingale Hospital still bears the scars. Matron Kathleen ..

London 1912. Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pi..

In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..

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

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

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

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

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

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

Scotland 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extr..

When Commander Martin Black is shot down over enemy territory and ends up in a POW camp his wife Ann..

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