1840. Twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane Cassandra Austen returns to the v..

London 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times having just lost her beloved husban..

When Gina Bianchi returns to the beautiful Italian resort of Portofino to attend her father's funera..

While her milliner mother Rosamund is abroad in Paris twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe is left behind in ..

Edinburgh 1896. At Alardyce House the family are gathered to celebrate the engagement of the heir to..

1939: Young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex bound for Australia. She is ready to start ..

Caribbean 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run - from their pasts from the British Navy and ..

Vita longs to write plays and poetry - but as a high-born girl in Roman Londinium her fate is sealed..

April 1861. Jack Lark arrives in Boston as civil war storms across America. A hardened soldier Jack ..

1804. Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor of France his ultimate aim: to rule Europe. After defeat at the ..

February 1941. The world is at war and Joyce Cooper is doing her bit for the war effort. But as the ..

It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith the village midwife walks a dangero..

A marriage of dynasty: that is what is expected of Mary Sidney. A marriage to Sir Henry Herbert Earl..

Left profoundly deaf after an accident Émile is no stranger to isolation - or heartbreak. Now as Na..

It's 1940 and Britain is on the brink of invasion. Londoner George has been sent to live in the coun..