1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

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

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

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

Hampshire 1940. Ellie Simpson is attached to an Air Transport Auxiliary base in Hampshire. Life as a..

1942. The ATA is calling upon its most trusted pilots to deliver precious bombers wherever they're n..

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

On the day that her youngest child leaves home Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a mat..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

Sally who married young to escape her appalling childhood is often left to bitterly reflect on the h..

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

White Waltham 1943. As Italy surrenders and victory looms on the horizon Ellie's doing what she does..

September 1942. Mary arrives in London to take up a new post as a fabric-cutter at Liberty's Carnaby..