For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear ..

1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..

March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..

June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly’s sister Doris must seek..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

1925. Attractive and strong-willed 23-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to ..

Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..

When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

January 1945 West London: Sylvia Simpson has become an invaluable member of the Marigold's crew - bu..

August 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boardinghouse before..

Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..