Liverpool 1940. There comes a moment in every child’s life when they must learn to stand on their ..

When Esther Thorel the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel the two women..

In 1887 Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class family. Escaping the countr..

Valentina Yershova’s position in the Romanovs’ Imperial Russian Ballet is the only thing keeping..

Ardnish 1944. On his deathbed Donald John Gillies sends for a priest to hear his last confession. Wa..

1840. Twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane Cassandra Austen returns to the v..

1864: Suddenly left as the head of the family Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep he..

1921. Families are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. Edie's ..

1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon-Somerset border the seasons unfold marked only by the ritua..

1912. Leo is on a journey. Aged 13 and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood he travels t..

As a young girl Ofelia stood frozen as her mother threw herself on her father's funeral pyre. Such i..

Autumn 1839. As the London nights darken rumours spread about the devil's chariot which preys on you..

London 1941: A woman is found wandering and injured after an air raid. She remembers nothing of who ..

1939: Young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex bound for Australia. She is ready to start ..

It begins with the normally healthy Beth - aged-care worker wife of David mother of Lettie and Gem -..