Sunderland 1943. Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feel..

But there is more tragedy still to come and Flo and her friends will need each other more than ever ..

Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

Christmas Eve 1909. When eleven-year-old Lily Larkin is left to fend for herself in an East London w..

Cornwall 1798. Eighteen months have passed since Midshipman Edmund Melville was declared missing pr..

After being orphaned as a child Mary is taken in by her mother’s friend - and ex-prostitute - Nell..

Working at the Foyles bookshop was Molly Cooper's dream job. But with the country at war she's deter..

Bath 1912. When Miss Pennington sends Amelia Wakefield to study the department stores of New York sh..

1851. After her husband saved her from a life of prostitution Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a hou..

1910 Liverpool DocksRuby Swift is a hard-working straight-talking woman of substance who does not su..

When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..

Wesley Curnow a young Cornish miner arrives in the United States to seek an uncle who is working on ..

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..

Sunderland 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance...Polly's sweetheart Tommy ..