Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

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

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

I used to love the rattle and whoosh of my grandma?s buttons as they scattered from their Quality St..

March 1940. Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one will know the t..

Manchester 1940. As the war continues and secrets threaten the railway girls they will discover the ..

At the end of the row of fishermen?s cottages by the harbour?s edge stands an old granite house. Fir..

After the death of her father El moves into his home just outside Tavistock in Devon. Fresh out of u..

When Florrie Maltby refuses to marry Gervase Richards she sets off a chain of events that will alter..

Charlotte is an only child reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he..

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

Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End Jenny Mercer is frightened of the wide open spaces and t..

Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister Peggy. She is the sensible reliable one in t..

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

Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over 20 years the wives of fishermen in ..