February 1945. When April Green's father is killed by a bomb life without him is hard to bear. April..

1940 London. Sheila Phipps is orphaned after a devastating air raid claims her family and her home. ..

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

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

“She's not worth more than tuppence that child!” Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe...

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

Manchester 1922. Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage pe..

Seventeen-year-old Muriel Dearlove has weathered the Blitz unscathed earning her keep in Miss Chapma..

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

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

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..

Eliza Wild has come a long way from her hungry childhood days in a rented miner's cottage on Pit Lan..

Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..