Berlin 1948. World War II has ended and there is supposed to be peace but Russian troops have closed..

Jersey 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets im..

London 1940. Ruth a young schoolteacher volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from wa..

New Zealand 1928. When Wilhelm Erdinger arrives in the sleepy village of Falters Mill claiming to wa..

1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini the most celebrated escape artist in the world has sol..

1944. Paul Brandt a German soldier returns wounded and ashamed from the chaos of the Eastern front t..

When young doctor Kit Stone returns to Britain a female associate of his brother Henry secures him a..

Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a ..

England 2001. Elizabeth has always suspected her mother harbours a secret from her time as a young w..

Flora Thompson was born in 1876 at Juniper Hill on the Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire border. She is b..

May 1964. At a youth festival in East Berlin an unlikely young couple fall in love. In the bright sp..

England 1450s. Queen Margaret knows she must protect the crown - and her son Prince Edward's claim t..

At age 14 Princess Salome knows she will soon be ready for marriage - one that will satisfy the ambi..

Western Australia 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to..

In 1942 a group of young women arrive in Cairo Egypt. The Tuis named after the beautiful New Zealand..