When 16-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead o..

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

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

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

Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..

Recently widowed Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daught..

Ellen Dawson is glad when the Great War ends but sad that Lady Bingram?s aides are to be disbanded. ..

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

The Great War opened up an exciting new career for Vi in London. But that was yesterday. Now the war..

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

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

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

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..