A loving and hard-working child Emily goes into service when she is twelve at the house of Roger Fra..

Rosa grew up an orphan in a remote island East coast of Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by the ..

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of hull. Her adored father travelled often to the..

Despite an early life marked by tragedy and hardship Beth Sherwin dreams of staying on at school and..

Pretty and bright Cleopatra Kelly dreams of a life without the shadow of fear cast by her abusive st..

With her mother dead her crippled father a broken and bitter man and her elder brother deeply in deb..

She had the voice of an angel...but it led her to sin A miner's daughter from the village of Annsdal..

Ten-year-old Amy Farthing miraculously survives the sinking of the Lusitania but loses both her pare..

Maureen Matthews has always been a 'deep one' with her head in the clouds and secrets in her heart. ..

When Rosalind West leaves her native Durham for a job in London with the Doxbridge Motor Company she..

At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

Allan Jamieson is hailed as a hero of the Great War but inside he is so affected by his experience t..

In September 1940 the Isle of Dogs suffers the first terrible night of a nine-month Blitz. Amidst th..

It is 1945 and in the Yorkshire market town of Middlebeck fifteen-year-old Maisie Jackson is waiting..

During the Great Depression like many others in Dundee the Neill family are struggling to make ends ..