When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action she brings up their young dau..
February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London’s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destr..
When Rachel Booker’s father dies deep in debt her mother must harden herself to make ends meet. Mo..
Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..
The Crying Game opens in 1944 and tells the story of Trixie - a girl who has only ever known turmoil..
Ever since the death of her beloved husband Peter Caroline's life in Bath has not been the same. Fri..
For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..
Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..
When 16-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead o..
Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address so when she needs to join the library she c..
Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..
Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..
Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..
Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..
A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..