Anna Jacobs

1945 - the war in Europe is over. It should be a time of utter joy and celebration....

Emmy Carter's mother is a prostitute - and her life has made Emmy determined to avoid the same fate....

Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere. Its folk are an independent breed - and in 1827 they are a thorn in the side of the vicious mill owner in the valley below....

In 1858 Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy babies and adores her husband, Frederick.... 

In the wake of World War Two, the whole country is desperate for houses, with very little money available to rebuild....

Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave her family in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless....

Three sisters. Three journeys. One destination....  

After a stray bomb scored a direct hit on his childhood home in Hertfordshire, the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going while he works day and night salvaging what he can from the rubble is the thought that soon he'll be joining wartime friends....

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of 10, with an incompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for her siblings....

Ismay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. However, her father has other ideas and orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn, even though she loathes him....