Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to start..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

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

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

When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - re..

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

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

Yorkshire 1944. The end of the war feels close but Air Transport Auxiliary girls Bobbie Viv and Mary..