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

In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows they shar..

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Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

When Rachel Booker?s father dies deep in debt her mother must harden herself to make ends meet. Moth..

It is 1942 and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham Maryann Bartholomew has built a happy li..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

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