It’s Christmas 1880 in London’s East End and a dying Irish girl leaves her baby in the care of t..

When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..

Liverpool 1868. Shrouded in secrecy Alice Sampson gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. But the form..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

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

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find them..

In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

Soundings and Choc Lit present the audiobook edition of A Daughter's Christmas Wish. Christmas 1919...

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

Will Christmas bring an unexpected reunion? Frances O'Leary has always dreamed of being a dancer. Bu..

The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

Connie Morgan works in the haberdashery department of a large Southampton store and is in love with ..

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

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

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

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..

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

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

London 1917. After the death of their parents Victoria did everything she could to keep her siblings..

Jessica is grieving for her beloved father Jacob Kingdom a trawler owner fondly remembered by his cr..

Summer 1953. Hilary Napier's life is turned upside-down when Marianne a beautiful French woman knock..

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

Lily and Vincent have been dancing everything from the waltz to the foxtrot together since they were..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

Deploring social injustice Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency concealing the fact that she'..

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

Liverpool 1872. After spending time training at the Infirmary for Women in New York Maud Linklater c..

The war is over but peace hasn't quite settled between newly-reunited sisters Babs and Beth. Tilly a..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liver..

March 1915. Caroline Lilley's fiancé Reggie is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and ..

Cornwall 1798. Eighteen months have passed since Midshipman Edmund Melville was declared missing pr..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Britain is at war and Ruth a gifted pilot is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Over in..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

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

1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

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

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..

Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony and two are quite happy to forge new lives for t..

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

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..

In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..

Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..

1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..

Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lott..

Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..

Christmas Eve 1909. When eleven-year-old Lily Larkin is left to fend for herself in an East London w..

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

In Western Australia the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable od..

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..

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

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..

Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..

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

When 18-year-old Eve runs away to start a new life in the city she quickly discovers that Leeds is n..

Laura Cannock is on the run suspected of killing her bullying husband and his family are out for rev..

Bath 1912. When Miss Pennington sends Amelia Wakefield to study the department stores of New York sh..

1920s. When her father dies Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position tak..

London 1914. While young men enlist up and down the country the Nightingale Hospital has its own set..

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

Yorkshire 1944. The end of the war feels close but Air Transport Auxiliary girls Bobbie Viv and Mary..

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..

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

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