Elizabeth Waite

Carla Scofield has looked after her family since she was a teenager but it's never been a bother because there isn't anything she wouldn't do…

Flame-haired beauty Chloe Collard watched her mother struggle through life, scraping together pennies in order to provide for her and her brothers, so Chloe promised…

Linked through marriage to three brothers, the Underwood women prove time and again that they are a force to be reckoned with. Jodie has travelled…

John, Rick and Derrick Underwood are the most handsome trio of brothers in town and it takes three exceptional women to convince them to settle…

South London, 1932. Times are hard for ten-year old Lizzie Collins and her family. With her father dead, it is up to her mother, grandmother…

Patsy Kent is just fourteen when her beloved mother Ellen dies of consumption in November 1918. The pregnant but unmarries Ellen fled her respectable family…

Kate's father owns a boatyard and they have a comfortable, loving family life until her father gets drunk, something which is increasingly frequent - then…

Tooting, 1950: After losing her husband in the war, Ida Wilcox is not so sure that bringing children into the world is such a good…

Patsy is now living a comfortable life - Eddie's little chain of hotels is thriving, but two of her four children have problems in their…

Becky Russell and Eleanor James were girls who deserved the best in life. But in suburban New Malden in the summer of 1920, what is…

Flame-haired Wimbledon girl Joan Harvey could not have chosen a worse time to fall in love with Matt Pearson. With no end in sight to…

Ella has lived in the East End of London all her life and when her husband is determined to move to Epsom to be near…

In 1951, the whole of London thrills to the Festival of Britain, but not Evie Smith. Mistress to Ted Hopkins these thirteen years, marriage is…

Like most people in London in the impoverished 1920s, Joan Baldwin has her crosses to bear. Her biggest one by far is her husband: a…

When Janey has to leave her home after her stepfather beats her up so badly her mother fears for her safety, she finds herself in…

When Annie's father is killed after being run over by a bus, Annie decides she can't let the two children her father took in as…