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

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..

Christmas should be the happiest time but at Pennington’s dramas are seething beneath the surface...

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

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

Grieving for their mother and abandoned by their father Mary and her siblings seek refuge at the fou..

East London 1938. Nine-year-old Daisy Purbright is a country girl at heart and together with beloved..

When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea she is su..

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is hap..

When her beloved father dies Manon Jenkins is left homeless and alone. She longs for Caradoc Jones s..

Jessie Price has travelled the drovers' roads from South Wales to London's Smithfield Market and bec..

Gwenllyn Lyons has been raised by her grandmother in the Wye Valley. One afternoon they come across ..

Charlotte knew nothing of her parents except that they'd died when she was a child. And when her aun..

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry run by Siona Llewelyn the kindly yet r..

When her grandmother dies Catherine Llewellyn finds herself alone in the world. Her inheritance is a..