When 16-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead o..

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

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London’s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destr..

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

France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the t..

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

Imogen Rita and Debby all missed the original evacuation and now the authorities are finding it diff..

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

Claudia Muldoon and her sister Jenny live with their parents and their gran in her house in Blodwen ..

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

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..

Addy and Prue Fairweather live with their widowed mother Nell in a flat above her shop. Addy is plai..

Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy Henshaw decides she i..