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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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