Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..

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

Following heavy casualties General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Ama..

Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

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..