Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

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

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..