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

When young British agent John Kirby is sent to Russia in 1911 he does not expect to fall in love. T..

When Baroness Sophie von Korvacs meets British painter James Fraser one hot summer's day in Vienna t..

1860. Harriet is trying to care for her ill mother and has just lost her job. The last thing she exp..

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

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 ne..

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..

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

Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfather and h..

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

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

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