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

It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..

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

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

Laura Cannock is on the run suspected of killing her bullying husband and his family are out for rev..

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

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

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

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

Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..

Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lott..

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

Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..

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

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

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

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

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..

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

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

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..

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

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

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

It’s Christmas 1880 in London’s East End and a dying Irish girl leaves her baby in the care of t..

When 18-year-old Eve runs away to start a new life in the city she quickly discovers that Leeds is n..

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

Jessica is grieving for her beloved father Jacob Kingdom a trawler owner fondly remembered by his cr..

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

Christmas should be the happiest time but at Pennington’s dramas are seething beneath the surface...

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

Liverpool 1872. After spending time training at the Infirmary for Women in New York Maud Linklater c..

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

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

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

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

Lily and Vincent have been dancing everything from the waltz to the foxtrot together since they were..

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

Deploring social injustice Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency concealing the fact that she'..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..

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

Liverpool 1868. Shrouded in secrecy Alice Sampson gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. But the form..

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

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

October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..

The war is over but peace hasn't quite settled between newly-reunited sisters Babs and Beth. Tilly a..

Yorkshire 1944. The end of the war feels close but Air Transport Auxiliary girls Bobbie Viv and Mary..

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

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

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

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

Connie Morgan works in the haberdashery department of a large Southampton store and is in love with ..

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

London 1917. After the death of their parents Victoria did everything she could to keep her siblings..

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

When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..

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

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

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

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

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

It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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