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

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

Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..

Needing to find a job Betty Dean is sent into service at Stowford House. The work is gruelling and h..

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

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

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

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

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

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

After her mother's death Dora is sent to live with her father and his other family. But Dora is mixe..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

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

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

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