Item category 1: Family Saga

Norah's husband was killed in the Great War. Andrew's wife is dead. They hardly know each other, but Andrew wants them to move to Australia to start a new life together. After all, his kids need a mother. Norah thinks the idea is crazy, however it may also be the answer to all her dreams.

Since her marriage to Fred Bradley, Carrie has been running the Dining Rooms, and trade has picked up since the end of the Great War. But all is not well between Carrie and Fred. Although they have a little daughter they adore, neither of them is happy. Will they ever know true happiness?

The much-loved author of 'Across the Mersey' tells of Liverpool under bombardment as never before - but the Campion family refuses to give in. The Campions have always stuck together through danger and sorrow, but even they begin to wonder if it's time to take their youngest, the twins, to safety...

Servant girl Betsy McBride thinks she has as much right as any girl to set her cap at Tom Brodie, the most dashing young man in the district. When her master asks her to help out the Brodie family she jumps at the chance to get a bit closer to him.

Ellen O'Casey, an Irish Catholic immigrant, is struggling to support her ailing mother, her daughter & herself. Washing other people's laundry by day, & singing in pubs at night, Ellen is determined to make a better life for her family. But brutish Danny Donovan, a local gangster & landlord, inte...

Ellen O'Casey, an Irish Catholic immigrant, is struggling to support her ailing mother, her daughter & herself. Washing other people's laundry by day, & singing in pubs at night, Ellen is determined to make a better life for her family. But brutish Danny Donovan, a local gangster & landlord, inte...

Confined to hospital for several weeks following a near-fatal crash, the fiercely-independent Eleanor must come to rely on others. Her daughter, Alex, starting out on her own career and caught up in a tempestuous relationship, returns home to care for her. Soon, the two women are forced to re-ass...

Worked all day for no pay by her strict aunt and preyed on at night by her merciless uncle in Regency Edinburgh's South Bridge, Kate has little time to daydream about the future. One day she meets Richard, an upper-class student studying medicine at Edinburgh University, and her life changes fore...

Evacuated to the Yorkshire Dales, Maddy Belfield adjusts to life with her new family, especially Aunt Plum. Eager to help with the war effort, Plum has opened up a home for 'difficult' evacuees and Maddy, Gloria, Greg and Enid quickly become friends. The friendship endures into adulthood, until a...

The Singleton family is on holiday. For seven-year-old Beth, just out of hospital, this means struggling to fill in her 'I-Spy' book & avoiding her mother Ruth's eagle-eyed supervision. Her 16-year-old sister Helen, meanwhile, has befriended a waitress whose fun-loving ways hint at a life beyond ...