Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

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

1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

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

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

But there is more tragedy still to come and Flo and her friends will need each other more than ever ..

When Pearl?s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - retu..

1939. When the man Georgie has always loved is sent to France on a secret mission every knock of the..

Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. T..

As a small child Nellie Peace was always dreaming but sensed her mother?s rejection. Abandoned and s..

Tasmania 1929: Ten-year-old-twins Tom and Harry Abbott are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart ..

Rationing bombing disease and pit disasters are part of Rose Kelly's World War 2 childhood. When the..