Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit; ever since her father's death she has had to be a survivor...

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

She is a servant girl... When her father becomes ill Emily Carter finds herself sent into service at..

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

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

October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..

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

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

Devon 1918. When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the..

The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..

Rose has a promising future stretching out before her until a cruel twist of fate seizes it. Will sh..

London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane surr..