Summer 1953. Hilary Napier's life is turned upside-down when Marianne a beautiful French woman knock..

Manchester 1941. When Cordelia’s daughter arrives home unexpectedly she can't wait to introduce he..

Holcombe Hall 1931. Florrie Bickerstaff has finally settled in as the new Housekeeper of Holcombe Ha..

Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter Annabel shall marry into th..

London 1914. While young men enlist up and down the country the Nightingale Hospital has its own set..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

Britain is at war and Ruth a gifted pilot is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Over in..

March 1915. Caroline Lilley's fiancé Reggie is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and ..

Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony and two are quite happy to forge new lives for t..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

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

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

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

It is 1964 and fun-loving Rita has her dream job working as a nanny for a huge popstar and his famil..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address so when she needs to join the library she c..

Will she find the strength to start again? When Jenny Gregory leaves wartime London for the quiet to..

Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Soundings and Choc Lit present the audiobook edition of A Daughter's Christmas Wish. Christmas 1919...

June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly’s sister Doris must seek..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

Polly Longden’s china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes she ne..

Rosie's family doesn't have much money but she's rich in other ways and when Danny Walsh asks her to..

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..

In Western Australia the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable od..

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find them..

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..

1920s. When her father dies Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position tak..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

Will Christmas bring an unexpected reunion? Frances O'Leary has always dreamed of being a dancer. Bu..

Nurse Marie Larsen has grown used to the challenges of keeping Hull Royal Infirmary running during t..

The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..

Sisters Alice and Annie have always been close but will a man come between them? Annie and Alice lov..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

As the Japanese begin their assault on Singapore Sarah Fuller and her sister Jane are forced to leav..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

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

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

Molly's life changes forever when her mother is killed in an accident. Although her beloved grandfa..

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children the..

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

Nothing can change her love for her son Gloria and Joe were the golden couple until tragedy left..

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liver..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

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

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

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

At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community her ..

In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..

Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..

It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. Katie O’Neill’s child..

1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..