Liverpool 1938. It’s Christmas in the Courts and single mother Rosheen Clarke and her mischievous ..

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

Gosport 1941. The Bluebird Girls - Rainey Bird Bea Herron and Ivy Sparrow - are on their way to star..

Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in th..

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

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

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

The Crying Game opens in 1944 and tells the story of Trixie - a girl who has only ever known turmoil..

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

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..

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

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

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

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

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